Constancy (Zen Mind, Beginners Mind) page 83 Comments by Wilbur Mushin Sensei
Dozan’s landscape is famous for its misty mountains and rivers. But when you go there, you see only rocks and water. Empty of all attributes. That’s it. The real beauty is in the mysterious flow of life, the constant coming and going. Mona Lisa’s smile is frozen for half a millennium. Capturing the image of ineffable beauty. That’s what poetry and painting does, the mind creating an image, whenever every smiling face expresses in a unique way buddha nature, lighting up fo