A happy event in the life of a romantic youth,
It is his sweetheart alone that is allowed to know.”[5.25]
Yenju, of Yōmeiji (Yung-ming Yen-shou, 904–975), who belonged to the Hōgen School of Zen Buddhism, was the author of a book called “Shukyōroku” (Record of Truth-Mirror) in one hundred fasciculi, and flourished in the early Sung. His realisation took place when he heard a bundle of fuel dropping on the ground.
“Something dropped! It is no other thing;
Right and left, there is nothing earthy:
Rivers and mountains and the great earth,—
In them all revealed is the Body of the Dharmarāja.”[5.26]
The first of the following two verses is by Yōdainen (Yang Tai-nien, 973–1020), a statesman of the Sung dynasty,”[5.27] and the second by Iku, of Toryō (Tu-ling Yü),[5.28] who was a disciple of Yōgi (Yang-ch‘i, 1024—1072), the founder of the Yōgi Branch of the Rinzai School.
“An octagonal millstone rushes through the air;
A golden-coloured lion has turned into a cur: