Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘Do not think of sound as do-re-mi-ta-so. Do not think of forms as blue, yellow, red, and white. Do not think of seeing as conditioned ss by the eye’s brightness. Do not think of hearing as the ear’s sense base. In short, people, the eye is not opposed to forms, nor does the ear deal with sounds. If you say that the ear is opposed to sounds or that the eye is conditioned by forms, then there is no clarity in sound and there is darkness in the eye. If you say that there is something opposed [to the senses] or something held [by the senses), how can sound enter the ear, and how can forms enter the eye? Therefore, if it is not like sky merging with sky or water merging with water, there is no hearing, there is no seeing; but because this is so, the eye merges with forms and the ear merges with sound. They are joined together without any separation; they are joined together with nothing remaining.

Because it is thus, even though it is a [huge] sound that reverberates hroughout heaven and earth, it enters the small square inch of the ear. Isn’t the supremely large the same as the small? One illuminates the whole earth vith the small square inch of the eye, so isn’t the supremely small the same as the large? Isn’t the eye, form? Isn’t sound, ears? Understanding it in this way, discerning it thus, this Mind is boundless and limitless. Therefore, the eye originally does not grasp, and forms cannot be separated. Aren’t all these divisions [of sense base, object, and consciousness] empty?’ (Denkoroku)