How can white reed flowers covered in snow be defiled by dust?
Who knows that there are many people on the pure earth?
A single plum flower in the cold,
with fragrant heart blossoming,
Calls for the arising of spring in the emptiness in the pot of ages.
Dogen
Response
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Our true self cannot be defiled. We blossom flagrantly in the cold, in the emptiness. Arising age after age.
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Shundo David Haye - Zen Priest 
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