"Here there is no talk of the world's affairs - those matters that make wild the hearts of men." Chia Tao (779-843); trans. Mike O'Connor

Friday, October 28, 2011

Quiet.....

In the mountaintop meditation room,
Just a monk's robes.
And outside windows, no one.
Birds at the stream take flight.
Yellow dusk stretching half-way down
The mountain road,
I hear cascades in love with
Kingfisher-greens gone dark.

- Meng Hao-jan (689-740)

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