Shih-te (Pickup): I live in a place without limits

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I live in a place without limits

by Shih-te (Pickup)
(780? - 850?) Timeline

English version by
Red Pine (Bill Porter)

Original Language
Chinese

Buddhist : Zen / Chan

Taoist

9th Century

I live in a place without limits
surrounded by effortless truth
sometimes I climb Nirvana Peak
or play in Sandalwood Temple
but most of the time I relax
and speak of neither profit nor fame
even if the sea became a mulberry grove
it wouldn't mean much to me

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

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Themes

Mountain

Water

Womb

Recommended Books

	The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Translated by Red Pine
	The Poetry of Zen: (Shambhala Library), Edited by Sam Hamill / Edited by J. P. Seaton

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