This Very Mind Is The Buddha - Zen Koan by Nadja Van Ghelue - Royalty Free and Rights Managed Licenses

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This Very Mind Is The Buddha - Zen Koan

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Nadja Van Ghelue

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Painting - Ink On Rice Paper

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This calligraphy has only four kanji,

即 soku, indeed
心 shin, mind
是 ze, is
佛 butsu, Buddha

but it expresses the core of Zen; our original nature is awake. I have rendered this Zen phrase 'Soku shin ze butsu', 即心是佛, translated as 'This very mind is the Buddha' in an "unpolished" semi-cursive style.

We find 'Soku shin ze butsu' 即心是佛, as a Zen koan in the collection of koan called Gateless Gate (Wu-men Kuan, Mumonkan). Case 30 states the following conversation between the Chinese Zen master Ma-tsu (Baso, one of the greatest of Chinese Zen masters ) and his disciple Ta-mei :

Ta-mei asked "What is the Buddha?"

Ma-tsu said "'This very mind is the Buddha."

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