Song of Enlightenment

Have you not seen the idle man of Tao who has nothing to learn and nothing to do,
Who neither discards wandering thoughts nor seeks the truth?
The real nature of ignorance is Buddha-nature;
The illusory empty body is the Dharma body.


After realizing the Dharma body, there is not a thing;
Original self-nature is the innate Buddha.
The five skandhas ─ the empty comings and goings of floating clouds;
The three poisons ─ the vacant appearing and disappearing of water bubbles.


When the real is experienced, there is neither person nor dharma.
In an instant the avici karma is destroyed.
If I lie to deceive sentient beings,
May my tongue be ripped out for kalpas uncountable as dust and sand.


With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Ch'an,
The six paramitas and myriad means are complete within that essence.
In dreams there are clearly six paths of sentient beings;
Upon awakening the great chiliocosm is completely empty.