Earth, water, fire and wind
His temporary shelters for the night
Don’t get attached to this
Temporarily burning house
You light the fire yourself, ignite the flames
In which you are consumed
Keep your thoughts as they were
When you came into the world
And immediately this itself is a living Buddha
Ideas about what is good,
what is bad
Its all thanks to yourself
A campfire in winter
Spells pleasure
But when summer comes
How annoying it gets!
And the wind
You loved summer
Even before autumn is over
It has already become a burden
Throwing your whole life away
Sacrificed to the thirst for gold
But when you saw, your life was over
All your money was of no use
Clinging, longing and the like
I don’t have them in my mind
That’s why I can say nowadays
The whole world is truly mine!
It’s unreal
Instead of holding onto things
Your spirit, go and sing!
Only the original mind exists
In the past and also in the future
Instead of holding onto things
Your mind, let it go!
After creating
the demon thinks about yourself
When it torments you mercilessly
You are to blame and no one else
When you do something wrong
our mind is the demon
There is no hell
Can be found outside
Hating hell
Longing for heaven
You make yourself suffer
In a joyful world
That’s fine with you
It means hating what is bad
But what’s bad is
The hating mind itself
Fame, fortune, food and
drinking, sleeping and sensual pleasure –
Once you have supported these Five Desires
They become
Your guide in life
Notions of what one should do
Never existed from the beginning
Fighting about what is right, what is wrong
That is the work of the false ‘I’
When you study
From Reality is over
You find
You have nothing new
When you think the mind
That achieves enlightenment
Is “mine” Your thoughts will struggle with each other
Nowadays it doesn’t bother me
Always obtain relief
And the result is that I wake up in the morning feeling good!
Praying for salvation in the world to come
Praying for your own selfish purposes
It just piles up more and more
Egocentrism and arrogance
Die – then live
Day and night in the world
Once you’ve done this, you can do that
Hold the world in your hand!
If you are looking for the Pure Land
Curious about your own reward
You will only find yourself
yet despised by the Buddha!
People have no enemies
Nothing at all from the start
You create them all yourself
Fighting for good and evil
The operation of cause and effect is clear
You become deceived, but you don’t know it
It’s something you did yourself
That’s called egocentrism
Even though the years creep forward
The Original Spirit itself can never grow old
This spirit is that
Always exactly the same
Beautiful! Awesome!
When you searched
and finally found
The one who will never grow old
– “Only me!”
The Pure Land
Where people communicate in peace
Is here and now, it is not remote
Millions and millions of miles away
When someone throws you a tea bowl
– Catch it!
Catch it deftly with soft cotton
With the cotton of your skillful mind!