Original Face

Cease practice based

on intellectual understanding,

pursuing words and

following after speech.

Learn the backward step

that turns your light inward

to illuminate within.

Body and mind of themselves

will drop away,

and your original face

will be manifest. — Dogen

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This ancient poem

holds the energy

of what I choose to see

in the world around me –

and what I seek to create.

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that stand the test of time.

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