“You hear a bird even before you decide to listen.”
Inspired by Bankei
To the card
Bankei Zen, translated by Peter Haskel, edited by Yoshito Hakeda, section Listen carefully. Bankei mentions crows, sparrows and the wind, which his listeners distinguish without deliberately listening for them. This illustrates the unborn Buddha Mind. Freely phrased, not a literal quotation.
Source
Bankei, Bankei Zen: Translations from The Record of Bankei, section Listen carefully; Grove Press 1984.
https://groveatlantic.com/book/bankei-zen/
Rights
The publisher states ©1984 Peter Haskel and Yoshito Hakeda, all rights reserved. No extensive excerpt for the app. The historical Japanese text would be in the public domain, but a reliably verified original passage for a new translation is lacking.
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