The Cuckoo Cries Deep in Spring (Album)

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Author: Lin Gufang
Publisher: INK Literary Monthly Publishing Co., Ltd.

Content Summary:
Spring flowers, summer birds, autumn maples, winter snow —

Life may indeed find its fullness in the present and live out its span,

whether you grasp it or not depends on whether you turn around.

Following Going to Seek the Monk Amid Falling Blossoms, this is another "cloud-and-water" contemplation by the Zen practitioner Lin Gufang, with more direct teachings from the Zen tradition. That it should be so is partly a matter of chronological sequence; that it should be so is even more because, in this season of deep spring, the cuckoo's cry of the school is precisely what is needed. And this cry is not to be sought in clever turns of phrase and capping verses — it simply mirrors the clear shadow of the Taoist directly. Only with such a clear shadow can the world know that practice truly does not deceive us, and believe that the Way is not far from man.

Fourteen accounts of cloud-and-water wandering, the Zen practitioner's genuine contemplation of life.

With the Zen mind mirroring all things and bringing them into accord, he records the wandering of his own cloud-and-water life and sets down...

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