Do you not know that we do not come from anywhere even as we are born, and do not go anywhere even as we die? Born wherever you are, you pass away on the spot, origination and annihilation as time goes by never rest. Therefore birth is not death, death is not birth, and as Zen students, do not keep birth and death hanging on your mind. Do not obstruct yourselves by hearing and seeing. Even if it becomes hearing and seeing, becomes sound and form, it is your own storehouse of light. Emanating light from your eyes, you make arrays of color and form; emanating light from your ears, you hear the buddha work of sounds; emanating light from your feet, you can walk forward and back.
-Master Keizan
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