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Statue.... Lao Tzu?

 

 

A  statue I saw in the woods….

 

  He makes me think of the old Chinese philosophers, people like Han Shan and Lao Tzu

 

 

from Han Shan (Cold Moon)

Since I came to Cold Mountain
how many thousand years have passed?
Accepting my fate I fled to the woods,
to dwell and gaze in freedom.
No one visits the cliffs
forever hidden by clouds.
Soft grass serves as a mattress,
my quilt is the dark blue sky.
A boulder makes a fine pillow;
Heaven and Earth can crumble and change.

 

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I usually live in seclusion

but sometimes I go to Kuoching

to call on the Venerable Feng-kan

or to visit Master Shih-Te.

But I go back to Cold Cliff alone,

obeying an unspoken agreement.

I follow a stream that has no spring

the spring is dry but not the stream

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My writing and judgment aren’t that bad;

but an unfit body receives no post-

Examiners expose me with a jerk.

They wash away the dirt and search for my sores,

of course it depends on Heaven’s will.

But this year I’ll try once more,

a blind man who shoots for a sparrow’s eye

just might score a hit

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December 2nd, 2009 | Category: Art, philosophy, poetry

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