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Secular or Eclectic
Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
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About Colin Oliver

Timeline (1946 - )

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Original Language
English

Cold Mountain

Themes
  Bower
  Garden
  Monkey
  Mountain
  Smile

 

Recommended Books

Stepping Into Brilliant Air, by Colin Oliver

(After Han Shan)

1
When I came to Cold Mountain
I made my home among pines
at the foot of a green cliff.
Yet who is here? Cold Mountain:
a vacant house. Jagged peaks,
white clouds and crying monkeys.

2
After a shower rocks gleam
and Cold Mountain from high peak
down to green border shimmers.
I wander by a clear stream,
watch pebbles in the water,
slip about on the wet moss.

3
In a valley where mist hangs
I sit by a rock, stay clear,
and see no inside or out.
At sunset, arriving home,
I stretch and take off my cap,
find it beaded with moisture.

4
I fetch water from the pool
where the herons fish; I share
the mountain fruit with monkeys.
At the centre I have found
a jewel and gained nothing.
The wind hums in the pine trees.

 

 

-- from Stepping Into Brilliant Air, by Colin Oliver

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