⛥ Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.
Ko Un
⛥ In the old days a poet once said
our nation is destroyed
yet the mountains and rivers survive
Today's poet says
the mountains and rivers are destroyed
yet our nation survives
Tomorrow's poet will say
the mountains and rivers are destroyed
our nation is destroyed and Alas!
you and I are completely destroyed
Ko Un
⛥ Grow high. The devil can't find you.
Grow deep. Buddha can't find you.
Build a house and live there.
Gourd creepers will climb over it,
their flowers dazzling at midnight.
⛥ he East Sea.
What had become of the seventeen hundred
koan-riddles?
The sound of waves
the sound of waves.
Playing with you I threw them away.
Ko Un
⛥ I've never been an individual entity.
Sixty trillion cells!
I'm a living collectivity.
I'm staggering zigzag along,
sixty trillion cells, all drunk.
⛥ The Lotus Sutra
The Lotus Sutra. Ultimate reality.
So
you've been bashing me badly.
I'll cudgel you, bastard.
Oh! Ouch!
You're made for bashing.
Oh! Ouch!
Oh! Ouch!
The Lotus Sutra dashed
Fields open wide,
once the farmers have gone.
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