No End Point
by Muso SosekiEnglish version by W. S. Merwin
Original Language Japanese
The whole world is clear and empty
to the ten directions
There is no end point
And yet when we
look carefully
there is one after all
You fly out of this world
looking backward
riding the giant roc
into the hollow of a lotus thread
to live there where heaven and earth
were never divided
-- from Sun at Midnight: Muso Soseki - Poems and Sermons, Translated by W. S. Merwin / Translated by Soiku Shigematsu |
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