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Buddhist : Zen / Chan
17th Century

About Shih Shu

Timeline (1660? - 1740?)

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English version by
James H. Sanford

Original Language
Chinese

as flowing waters disappear into the mist

Themes
  Heart
  Water
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China, Edited by Red Pine
A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, Edited by J. P. Seaton / Edited by Dennis Maloney
Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry, Edited by Wu-chi Liu / Edited by Irving Yucheng Lo

as flowing waters disappear into the mist
we lose all track of their passage.
every heart is its own Buddha;
to become a saint, do nothing.

enlightenment: the world is a mote of dust,
you can look right through heaven's round mirror
slip past all form, all shape
and sit side by side with nothing, save Tao.

 

 

-- from A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, Edited by J. P. Seaton / Edited by Dennis Maloney

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