When I was in college, I bought a small booklet, which is a written tract by Seng-Ts'an [the Third Zen Patriarch]. It's 5 x 7 booklet of maybe 20 pages filled with ink drawings, and Sen-Ts'an's verses on Faith-Mind. The early chinese zen reminds me of the Taoist sages, and hermits who went off into the woods. they were eccentric, crazy, and
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