Loy Ching-Yuen was born in China’s Hubei province in 1873. He studied with a Taoist master, learning tai chi chuan, chi gung, and naturopathic medicine. Most of his life was spent in the area of Shanghai, but with the upheavals of 1949, he went to Hong Kong, and then later moved to the United States where he passed away in the early 1960’s. In the United States, he gave lectures, and some of his teachings form the basis of The Book of the Heart : Embracing the Tao, from which this is taken.
The wind bears no shape or shadow,
has no abode;
in meditation, be as the wind –
without image, without dwelling:
This is the wisdom of the heart.
Translation Trevor Carolan and Bella Chen
I find this poem so beautiful, so vast,
so wonderful to consider to be as the wind, in meditation,
and make the llnk to the wisdom the wisdom of the heart.
thank you
Thank you, dear Zubin. Yes, it moves meditation from ‘hard work’ to freedom.