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Day: August 30, 2021

August 30, 2021

KEICHU THE WHEELMAKER 無門關 八

A collection of sticks
and boards is Keichu’s cart

Keichu’s cart no more
than a pile
of sticks and boards

not I
rides no horse
pulling no cart

a hundred spokes
dance in ten directions.

A reflection on Case 8 of the Mumonkan (Gateless Gate Koans)

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