Hanshan 14.5:
Cold Mountain says, “Anger is a fire in the mind / it can destroy a forest of merit / if you travel the bodhisattva path / forbearance keeps anger away.” (The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain: 89)
Hanshan 13.2:
Huai-shen says, “‘My mind is like the autumn moon / clear and bright in an emerald pool / nothing can compare / what more can I say.’ In this poem ( The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain: 5), Cold Mountain basically says, ‘If we can’t find anything, then stop.’ Whoever is able to understand that form and nature are both empty and able to eliminate both existence and non-existence, and to forget both words and silence, sees that their own nature is pure. Although they talk all day, they still don’t say a word.”
Hanshan 15.1:
Of such renunciates, Cold Mountain says, “Dressed in sky-flower clothes / wearing tortoise-hair shoes / clutching rabbit-horn bows / they hunt the ghosts of delusion.” (The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain: 293)
Hanshan 15.2:
Cold Mountain says, “They say when Shakyamuni / first heard Dipankara’s prophecy / Dipankara and Shakyamuni / spoke only of past and future sages / past and future bodies didn’t matter / how they differed didn’t differ / for each and every buddha / the mind is a tathagata’s realm.” (The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain : 237)
Hanshan 31.2:
Cold Mountain says, “For an image of life and death
/ consider ice and water.” (100)