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Author of this poem:
Zen Master Hsu Yun
ENTRANCE TO THE WAY
So many people enter the hall to practice.
How many of them carry that long sword
The sword of Heavenly Reliance?
Everything has to be hacked to pieces.
Saints, demons, everything!
Blood has to be splattered all over the mansions of heaven.
That's the Direct Teaching!
Pull down those golden locked gates to the Profound
That guard the Entrance to the Way.
Be fierce when you sit! Make your sitting a blade that hacks through the
wilderness of incomprehension.
Let your eye pierce the Emptiness!
Expose that True Face
The One that was yours before your mother gave birth.
