Song of Mind (Xin Ming) - Master Niutou Farong - Zen Buddhism

Reading of the famous seventh-century Zen classic Xin Ming, or "Song of Mind" - this poem is a masterpiece of expressing the inexpressible.

Zen master Farong (594-657) of Mt. Niutou came from Yanling in Run Province. His surname was Wei. By the age of nineteen he was versed in the classic Confucian histories, but later he read the Nirvana Sutra and thereupon penetrated the truth. One day he exclaimed, "Confucianism is a doctrine of worldly affairs, but it isn't a teaching of the highest truth. When I read the Nirvana Sutra, I finally found a vessel for leaving the world behind."