{"id":537,"date":"2014-10-07T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=537"},"modified":"2021-03-01T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T20:06:55","slug":"fuxis-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Fuxi&#8217;s Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The sixth-century Buddhist monk Fuxi wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The empty hand grasps the hoe handle<br \/>\nWalking along, I ride the ox<br \/>\nThe ox crosses the wooden bridge<br \/>\nThe bridge is flowing, the water is still<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">(Fuxi, trans. Andy Ferguson &#8220;Zen&#8217;s Chinese Heritage&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The phenomena that Fuxi described in his poem are all phenomena of trance; that is to say, they require the induction of a state in which volition in activity is surrendered, to a greater or lesser extent, before they can be observed.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the introduction to\u00a0a new work entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenmudra.com\/zenmudra-fuxi.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fuxi&#8217;s Poem<\/a>\u00a0on the site, and any comments or suggestions with regard to the work made here on Zazen Notes will be gratefully received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth-century Buddhist monk Fuxi wrote: The empty hand grasps the hoe handle Walking along, I ride the ox The ox crosses the wooden bridge The bridge is flowing, the water is still (Fuxi, trans. Andy Ferguson &#8220;Zen&#8217;s Chinese Heritage&#8221;) The phenomena that Fuxi described in his poem are all phenomena of trance; that is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fuxi&#8217;s Poem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}