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How could we discuss
this and that
without knowing
the whole world is
reflected in a single pearl?
The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.
When all thoughts
Are exhausted
I slip into the woods
And gather
A pile of shepherd's purse.
Like the little stream
Making its way
Through the mossy crevices
I, too, quietly
Turn clear and transparent.
I don't tell the murky world
to turn pure.
I purify myself
and check my reflection
in the water of the valley brook.
The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the wind
Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single disturbed thought
Creates ten thousand distractions.
In this dream world
we doze
and talk of dreams -
dream, dream on,
as much as you wish
I don't regard my life
as insufficient.
Inside the brushwood gate
there is a moon;
there are flowers.
How can we ever lose interest in life? Spring has come again
And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.
The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind;
The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind.
The flower opens, the butterfly comes;
The butterfly comes, the flower opens.
I don't know others,
Others don't know me.
By not-knowing we follow nature's course
If there is beauty, there must be ugliness;
If there is right, there must be wrong.
Wisdom and ignorance are complementary,
And illusion and enlightenment cannot be separated.
This is an old truth, don't think it was discovered recently.
"I want this, I want that"
Is nothing but foolishness.
I'll tell you a secret -
"All things are impermanent!
In this world of dreams, drifting off still more; and once again speaking and dreaming of dreams. Just let it be.
In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can ever be lost? What can be attained? If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time. If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us.
Someday I'll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow,
Serenaded by a stray bird or two.
Kings and commoners end up the same,
No more enduring than last night's dream.
