Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

producing this but first specifically concerning this work.
To find Mr. Chen might be difficult enough unless one
knew the way. Not that he lives now in some remote
mountain cave or inaccessible hermitage, but because the
crowded, narrow and rather steep streets of Kalimpong
diving from one level to another would confuse most in
their search. To reach our yogi one descends these streets
to lower and lower levels and passing through a crowded
neighborhood predominantly inhabited by poor Tibetans,
one comes to a row of prayer flags. In front of his
hermitage is a large farm of the Agriculture Department
which presents a beautiful landscape from his south
window. As he says, poems already made by nature
when viewed from this window have inspired him many
times.
When he arrived here, before the influx of Tibetan
refugees into Kalimpong, his house was quite isolated
and from the lower ground of the farm grew up to the
height of his window five trees used as a Bodhi-tree
substitute in China. Those were foreseen by our yogi in
the light of his concentration, before he came to
Kalimpong. Moreover, they were exactly the height of
the Buddha, that is, sixteen feet according to Chinese
belief. They were more than an auspicious sign for him;
their deep meaning being that just as the Panca Tathagata
emanate from Vajrasattva, so these five Buddha-symbols
stood below his hermitage. Therefore he composed the
following poem:
Half straggling town-end, half extensive farm:
Between, a hermitage we see appear.
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