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title: Topple Mount Sumeru
description: "By knocking down Mount SumeruObstacles are purged.In the pure sea of our nature true,No more waves emerge.Awake, to pene"
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By knocking down Mount Sumeru
Obstacles are purged.
In the pure sea of our nature true,
No more waves emerge.
Awake, to penetrate and know
The true face of each of us.
Prajna wisdom always shows
That all things are forever thus.
Verse for starting the Chan session
Gold Mountain Chan Monastery, San Francisco

December 5th, 1971