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Taoist
12th Century

About Sun Buer

Timeline (1124 - 1182?)

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English version by
Jane Hirshfield

Original Language
Chinese
Cut brambles long enough,

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

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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