Returning home after a day of begging

Returning home after a day of begging;

Sage has covered my door.
Now a bunch of green leaves burns together with the firewood.
Silently I read the poems of Kanzan,
Accompanied by the autumn wind blowing a light rain that rustles through the reeds.
I stretch out both feet and lie down.
What is there to think about? What is there to doubt?

Ryokan

Le Soi, contenu en Soi

 Le Soi, contenu en Soi,

Faisant appel à Soi pour la révélation du Soi

C'est cela le bonheur.

Ma Ananda Moyî

Express yourself completely

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Express yourself completely,

then keep quiet.

Be like the forces of nature:

when it blows, there is only wind;

when it rains, there is only rain;

when the clouds pass, the sun shines through.

If you open yourself to the Tao,

you are at one with the Tao

and you can embody it completely.

If you open yourself to insight,

you are at one with insight

and you can use it completely.

If you open yourself to loss,

you are at one with loss

and you can accept it completely.

Open yourself to the Tao,

then trust your natural responses;

and everything will fall into place.

Lao Tzu (tradução Stephen Mitchell)

Beyond Silence

Beyond Silence

Blue-green spring water,
white moonlit mountain.

Quiet wisdom of the spirit:
empty gaze beyond silence.

Han-shan [Cold Mountain]

A cold night—sitting alone in my empty room

A cold night—sitting alone in my empty room

Filled only with incense smoke.

Outside, a bamboo grove of a hundred trees;

On the bed, several volumes of poetry.

The moon shines through the top of the window,

And the entire neighborhood is still except for the cry of insects.

Looking at this scene, limitless emotion,

But not one word.



Ryokan

Standing alone beneath a solitary pine

Standing alone beneath a solitary pine;

Quickly the time passes.

Overhead the endless sky—

Who can I call to join me on this path?

Ryokan

Bright, bright, and bright, bright, bright, and bright, bright

Bright, bright, and bright, bright, bright, and bright, bright.
Bright and bright, bright, and bright, bright moon.

Myōe

The birds have vanished down the sky

The birds have vanished down the sky.

Now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,

until only the mountain remains.

Li Po

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain,
But at the peak
We all gaze at the
Single bright moon.


Ikkyu

Listening to the evening rain in my hermitage

Listening to the evening rain in my hermitage.
The Great Way? I braid spring flowers into a ball.
The future? If a visitor brings these questions
I have only the tranquillity of the hermitage to offer.

Ryokan

In the empty doorway many petals are scattered

In the empty doorway many petals are scattered;
As they fall they blend with the song of the birds.
Slowly, the bright spring sun appears in the window
And a thin line of smoke drifts from the incense burner.



Ryokan

Je cueille des chrysanthèmes au pied de la haie

Je cueille des chrysanthèmes au pied de la haie,
Et contemple en silence la montagne du Sud.
L’air de la montagne est pur dans le crépuscule,
Et les oiseaux, par bandes, regagnent leur nid.
Toutes ces choses ont un sens profond,
Mais lorsque j’essaie de l’exprimer,
Il se perd dans le silence.

Tao Yuanming

I must go there today

I must go there today -
Tomorrow the plum blossoms
Will scatter.

Ryokan

Une tasse est tombée sur le sol

Une tasse est tombée sur le sol
Emettant un son d'une grande clarté.
L'espace se pulvérisa et
L'esprit fou d'un coup s'arrêta.

Xuyun

The Great Way has no Gate

The Great Way has no gate

The Great Way has no gate,
A thousand roads enter it.
When one passes through this gateless gate,
He freely walks between heaven and earth.



Wu Men Hui-K'ai