Topple Mount Sumeru

　　By knocking down Mount Sumeru

　　Obstacles are purged.

　　In the pure sea of our nature true,

　　No more waves emerge.

　　Awake, to penetrate and know

　　The true face of each of us.

　　Prajna wisdom always shows

　　That all things are forever thus.

　　Verse for starting the Chan session

　　Gold Mountain Chan Monastery, San Francisco

　　December 5th, 1971