Spring 1984 Vol. 1 #1
Spring 1984 Vol. 1 #1
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When the bottom of a barrel busts open this vast earth seems even wider When one’s life line snaps asunder a green lake turns crystal clear What can be better than to grasp a pinch of snow from a blazing furnace & sprinkle it throughout all human life like travelers’ lamps brightening their night
—Da-hui Zhong-gao (1039-1163). Translated by Gary Gach.
Poet Da-hui Zhong-gao was a 12th-century Zen master. Translator Gary Gach (http://word.to) hosts Mindfulness Fellowship weekly in San Francisco.
From the Spring 2015 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 31, No. 2)
© 2015 Gary Gach