Master Shiwu 石屋 - Stonehouse ~ Entering the Mountains ~ Zen Buddhism (Chan)

The Zen master, Shiwu 石屋, or Stonehouse (1272–1352) was a Chinese
Chan poet and hermit monk who lived during the Yuan Dynasty. He
was considered one of the greatest Chinese Buddhist poets and
used poetry as his medium of instruction for Dharma.  In
1312 at the age of forty he moved to Xiamu Mountain near Huzhou
to live as a hermit and it is here that he composed his "Mountain
Poems" (Shan-shih), one-hundred and eighty-four verses expounding
Dharma and the facets of living in the mountains. Near the end of
his life, monks asked him to record what he found of interest on
his mountain; Stonehouse delivered to them hundreds of poems and
an admonition: "Do not try singing these poems. Only if you sit
on them will they do you any good."  Translated by Red Pine
(Bill Porter).


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