Muso Kokushi

1275-1351, Japanese Zen Master, Calligrapher, Poet

Attachment
If you forget your feelings
about things of the world,
they become enlightening teachings.
If you get emotional
about enlightening teaching,
it becomes a worldly thing.
Attention / Awareness
Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.
in Dream Conversations on Buddhism and Zen , Thomas Cleary, tr., 1994

Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing , © 2004