Dennis Kessinger is a Zen Buddhist, Poet, University Professor, and South Seas Sailor.
"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
Thursday, November 3, 2011
I would like to live in the blue mountains too....
On a Monk's Poetry Scroll
Azaleas are blooming and swallows flying;
I wake up dazed from a nap beside my lute.
A monk comes, but does not talk of the world,
Knowing, I too, want to live in the blue mountains. - Shin Hum (1566-1628)
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