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Showing posts with label Portrait of Dogen Viewing the Moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portrait of Dogen Viewing the Moon. Show all posts

Friday, December 9, 2011

Portrait of Dogen Viewing the Moon

*Poem on the portrait written by Dogen in 1249.

Fresh, clear spirit covers old mountain man this autumn.
Donkey stares at the sky ceiling; glowing white moon floats.
Nothing approaches. Nothing else included.
Bouyant, I let myself go-filled with gruel, filled with rice.
Lively flapping from head to tail,
Sky above, sky beneath, cloud self, water origin.