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Dongshan's Five Ranks (5th)

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KOAN:

Poem 5

Not deciding it is or it isn’t
Do you have the courage to be at peace with it?
Everyone wants to leave the endless changes
But when we finish bending and fitting our lives
We come and sit by the fire.

—from the Record of Dongshan, The Five Ranks (5th Rank)