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Buddhist : Zen / Chan
14th Century

About Muso Soseki

Timeline (1275 - 1351)

 Muso Soseki, Muso Soseki poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Zen / Chan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

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English version by
W. S. Merwin

Original Language
Japanese
At the Nachi Kan'non Hall

Themes
  Sky
  Sound
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

East Window: Poems from Asia, Translated by W. S. Merwin
Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader, Edited by Nelson Foster / Edited by Josh Shoemaker
Sun at Midnight: Muso Soseki - Poems and Sermons, Translated by W. S. Merwin / Translated by Soiku Shigematsu

The Milky Way
     pours waterfalls
          over this human world
the cold
     rushing tumbling sounds
          echo through the blue sky
Veneration
     to the Great Compassionate
          Avilokiteshvara
How lucky I am
     to have no trouble
          hearing

 

 

-- from Sun at Midnight: Muso Soseki - Poems and Sermons, Translated by W. S. Merwin / Translated by Soiku Shigematsu

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