12 Famous Verses For Deep Concentration – 11-十二时颂-夜半子

 

Mid-night: 2300-0100 hours

A calm mind with nothing arising is your reach to the birth and death.   

Birth and death are not relevant to the existence or non-existence.   

You can enact it anytime in use but there is no word to describe the state.The patriarch’s words are not relevant to your mind state.

It is still not the right answer for you when consciousness is linked.

There is no trace when you attempt to search for it.
Let the devas of both birth and death come to test your mind state.

(11 of 12 verses, by Ancient Chinese Monk Zi-Gong, Liang Dynasty)   

十二时颂–夜半子。

心住无生即生死。

生死何曾属有无。

用时便用没文字。

祖师言，外边事。

识取起时还不是。

作意搜求实没踪。

生死魔来任相试。