True reality cannot be captured by speech or forced silence, but only by experiencing life directly as it is. See how Zen master Fuketsu’s vivid, poetic image of spring in Southern China unlocks the ultimate secret of enlightenment. OK?
“A monk asked Fuketsu, “Without words or without transgressing silence, how can one be unmistakably one with the universe?”
Fuketsu said, “I often think of March in Konan (Southern China). The birds sing among hundreds of fragrant flowers.”
Source: http://www.101zenstories.org
Fuketsu Ensho was the fourth generation descendent
of the Rinzai school, one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism, along with Sōtō and Ōbaku.
Image: A postage stamp issued by Thailand in 1988 shows the statue of a walking Buddha, which symbolises the Buddha’s return from the Tavatimsa Heaven. Courtesy https://www.buddhiststamp.com/