Old age brings white hair. Heaven’s loom of origins works
like that. People never denounce summer’s endless green:
they love spring blossoms and those long days that follow.
But soon autumn leaves fall, and did ancients outlive that?
translated by David Hinton
We set out, drift and wander wherever our beguiled whims take us,
no need to pretend our walking-sticks might meet at some bridge.
When ch’an mind opens, you can’t ignore all this quiet emptiness.
And even old, with our crystalline bones of Tao, why fear the cold?
translated by David Hinton
It’s been ages since I visited city markets,
and I’m past worry over disappointments.
It’s quiet. I gather blossoms, and awaiting
sage-masters, drink clouds at their source.
translated by David Hinton
Across a thousand hundred-twist trails through forest hills,
a painting’s wind-mist silvers autumn into a single color,
nothing left but the beauty of wandering out impulse here.
Red poplar-tears: what grief scatters them across streams?
translated by David Hinton
Things aren’t other than they are.
I am today whoever I was long ago,
and if I can be described, it’s as this
pure likeness of things themselves.
translated by David Hinton
It’s all mirage illusion, like cinnabar-and-azure paintings, this
human world. We wander here for a time, then vanish into dust.
Things aren’t other than they are. That’s all anyone can know.
Don’t ask if this thing I am today is the thing I was long ago.
translated by David Hinton
Who ever lives our life’s full hundred years? It’s the body’s
grief. And gazing through spring wind, your eyes weep tears.
Birds in song, open blossoms–everything has its thoughts.
Don’t forget the poetry in mountain cherry and pied wagtail.
translated by David Hinton
Old now, tangled in human form, I’m done trusting wisdom.
Knowledge in ruins, I’ll follow farmland elders, live out my
hundred years like a child. What else could carry me clear
through, heal all these failures hacking and scarring my face?
translated by David Hinton
Gazing at each other, we’re held here.
Dusk lake tranquil, we sit hand in hand,
talk fallen silent. Slow, deep in radiant
moonlight, island after island emerges.
translated by David Hinton
I’ve only lived thirty years and already I feel old
wherever I look I’m beset by sorrow
I’ve come in this little boat to say goodbye tonight
here where the shores of life and death divide us
translated by Red Pine
note: written to his daughter who was buried on a small hill beyond a moat just before he had to leave the district for his next government posting
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