Sun Buer: Cut brambles long enough

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Cut brambles long enough

Sun Buer, Sun Buer poetry, Taoist, Taoist poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Sun Buer
(1124? - 1182?) Timeline

English version by
Jane Hirshfield

Original Language
Chinese

Taoist

12th Century

Cut brambles long enough,
Sprout after sprout,
And the lotus will bloom
Of its own accord:
Already waiting in the clearing,
The single image of light.
The day you see this,
That day you will become it.

-- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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Themes

Light

Lotus

Rose

Spring Blossom

Recommended Books

	Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women, Edited by Thomas Cleary
	The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone
	Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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