Yin and Yang Relics

When Jishou came, the road was filled with mist and old traces. Or observe the difficulties of Confucianism in dealing with the world, and see morality tossing and turning in the toil of the world; or understand Shi's wisdom of observing space, and observe the birth and death of troubles in delusional thoughts; or the beauty of Methodism's adaptability, flowing in nature with the cold and heat - the meanings of the three teachings are integrated into this volume, and the interpretation of thousands of human states. Some people call him a "young old man" with a youthful spirit in his bones and traces of frost and snow on his heart. I once tasted the hardship of terrestris, swallowed the astringency of separation, and felt hopeless after seeking for nothing; I once sat in an empty door, knocked on the bells and drums, watched the candles flicker and fade, and realized the impermanence; I also entered the earthly world to experience greetings, and listened to the joys and sorrows of the market place to know the temperature. The space and the earth are trained back and forth, like the gold sutra quenched by fire, the jade sutra polished by stone, and finally a yin and yang relic is condensed: it contains hardness and softness without deviation, it hides the emptiness without clinging to it, it does not indulge in noise, and it does not remain stagnant in silence. Now I put this mind, this state, and this relic into the ink to form this compilation of Zen thoughts. The taste cannot be fully expressed in words: you need to savor the bitterness and then the sweetness, think slowly about giving up and gaining, emptiness and being; holding a scroll in your hand, like sitting with an old man talking quietly, observing the various states of mind to understand the world, and seeing your own mind to gain clarity.