On Liu Te-fe’s Pavilion of Reality by Yang Wan-li

T’ao Ch’ien forgot words
when he experienced reality.
Today his experience is still alive in your pavilion.
If a guest should ask you “What is this ‘reality’?”
say: “A person’s image is a mirror,
the sky reflected in water.”

translated by Jonathan Chaves

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