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Sinking like a rock in the sea

Feng-kan (Big Stick), Feng-kan (Big Stick) poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Zen / Chan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Taoist poetry by Feng-kan (Big Stick)
(750? - 850?) Timeline

English version by
Red Pine (Bill Porter)

Original Language
Chinese
Buddhist : Zen / Chan
Taoist
8th Century

Sinking like a rock in the sea
drifting through the Three Worlds
poor ethereal creature
ever immersed in scenes
until a flash of lightning shows
life and death are dust in space

 

 

-- from The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Translated by Red Pine

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Themes

  Death
  Water
 
 
 


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The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Translated by Red Pine

 

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