Hua-t'zu: Reflections on the Gateless Gate Mirror

Author: Yang Dian
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: I felt inspired by this, so I stayed up at midnight, delving into the classics, racing against time amidst the dim light of books and yellow scrolls, like lightning waves amidst passwords and parables. I stripped away the layers, cut through the chaos, pierced through a single character, and grasped the essence of a thousand cases—thus, Crazy Zen was completed! The time spent writing this book was like a "Zen retreat," with forty-nine chapters perfectly aligning to seventy-seven days, truly one insight per day, one sentence per life and death. Now that the book is finished, I can finally return to my ordinary, profound silence. A small ode after laying down the pen: Heaven and Earth are one gate, all beings are flowers before the court. When they bloom, gods and Buddhas watch; when they fall, it's you, me, and others!