Hui-neng's Pond
by Muso SosekiEnglish version by W. S. Merwin
Original Language Japanese
The Dharma spring of the Sixth Patriarch
has never run dry
it is flowing even now
a single drop
has fallen and spread
far and deep
Don't be caught
by the decorations at the edge
and the wall around it
In the dead of night
the moonlight strikes
the middle of the pond
-- from Sun at Midnight: Muso Soseki - Poems and Sermons, Translated by W. S. Merwin / Translated by Soiku Shigematsu |
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