Focus ... distraction's only natural
Earth, river, mountain:
snowflakes melt in air.
How could I have doubted?
Where's north? south? east? west?
Dangai
(c.1127-1279)
30 November 2022
29 November 2022
Caught
Caught ... a lost consciousness
Sixty-six years
piling sins,
I leap into hell -
above life and death.
T'ien-t'ung Ju-ching
(1183-1228)
24 November 2022
Assessment
To choose but not to judge
Clouds appear free of care
and carefree drift away.
But the carefree mind is not to be "found" -
to find it, first stop looking around.
Wang An-shih
(1021-1086)
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22 November 2022
Fearless
Fearless ... is not about size
Green mountains father white clouds:
white clouds are the children of mountains.
White clouds hang around all day.
Mostly the mountain doesn't mind.
T'ung-shan Liang-chieh
(807-869)
21 November 2022
Natural
Natural ... if we allow it
Lute
My lute set aside
on the little table,
lazily I meditate
on cherished feelings.
The reason I don't bother
to strum and pluck?
There's a breeze over the strings
and it plays itself.
Po Chu-i
(772-846)
17 November 2022
Solitary
Solitary ... part of the journey
Seclude the mind, not the movements,
remain living in the world of man.
Lack a tree? Plant a sapling.
Without a mountain? Look at a picture.
Living amidst clamor I am not flustered;
true meaning is found in this.
remain living in the world of man.
Lack a tree? Plant a sapling.
Without a mountain? Look at a picture.
Living amidst clamor I am not flustered;
true meaning is found in this.
Ch'iao-jan
(734-c.792)
(734-c.792)
15 November 2022
Flight
Flight ... the most natural thing
I make my home in the mountains
You ask why I live
alone in the mountain forest,
and I smile and am silent
until even my soul grows quiet:
it lives in the other world,
one that no one owns.
The peach trees blossom.
The water continues to flow.
Li Po
(701-762)
08 November 2022
"Seeing each other ...."
"Seeing each other,
they break out in laughter."
"What color is the wind;
from where does the rain come?"
