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Buddhist : Zen / Chan

8th Century

About Meng Hao-jan

Timeline (689 - 740)

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English version by
J. P. Seaton

Original Language
Chinese

Master I's Chamber in the Ta-yu Temple

Themes

Heart

Lotus

Mountain

Water

Womb

Recommended Books

	The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan, Translated by David Hinton
	The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhalla Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton
	Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Edited by Wu-chi Liu / Edited by Irving Yucheng Lo

I-Kung's place to practice Ch'an:
a hut in an empty grove.

Outside the door, a single pretty peak.
Before the stair, deep valleys.

Sunset confused in footprints of the rain.
Blue of the void in the shade of the court.

Look, and see the lotus blossom's purity:
know then that nothing taints this heart.

-- from The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhalla Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton

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