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Buddhist : Zen / Chan
Taoist
7th Century

About Yoka Genkaku (Yongjia Xuanjue)

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English version by
Robert Aitken

Original Language
Chinese
[26] The moon shines on the river, (from The Shodoka)

Themes
  Light
  Moon
  Water
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Buddhism and Zen, by Nyogen Senzaki / Ruth Strout McCandless

The moon shines on the river,
The wind blows through the pines,--
Whose providence is this long beautiful evening?
The Buddha-nature jewel of morality
Is impressed on the ground of my mind,
And my robe is the dew, the fog, the cloud, and the mist.

 

 

 

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