Wheel-of-suffering and dependent origination

The Mind King

“Verses of the Mind King” is attributed to Fu Dashi (a famous Chinese sixth-century Lay Buddhist). The poem, having referred to the Mind King, who, for all his importance, is not evident to the senses, goes on to say: The salt put in water / the glue put in paint – Certainly these are present / But we cannot see their form. The Mind King is also thus / Abiding within the body, Going in and out the (gate of […]