Han-shan (Cold Mountain): [48] Beneath high cliffs I live alone

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[48] Beneath high cliffs I live alone

Han-shan (Cold Mountain), Han-shan (Cold Mountain) poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Zen / Chan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Taoist poetry

by Han-shan (Cold Mountain)
(730? - 850?) Timeline

English version by
Red Pine (Bill Porter)

Original Language
Chinese

Buddhist : Zen / Chan

Taoist

8th Century

Beneath high cliffs I live alone
swirling clouds swirl all day
inside my hut it might be dim
but in my mind I hear no noise
I passed through a golden gate in a dream
my spirit returned when I crossed a stone bridgre
I left behind what weighed me down
my dipper on a branch click clack

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

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Recommended Books

	The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Translated by Red Pine
	A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, Edited by J. P. Seaton / Edited by Dennis Maloney
	The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
	The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton
	Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems, by Gary Snyder

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