J.P. Seaton

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Translations of
the Chinese Masters

Contents

 

Ten Poems by Ou-yang Hsiu
  Ou-yang Hsui

Poems from "An Answering Music"
  Anonymous, Drunken Villagers
  Tu Fu, House Cricket and Song of the Bound Chickens
  Yuan Mei, Dog Days, At "Be Careful Bank," Night Thought, Talking Art, When the Clouds Come

More Poems by Yan Mei and Poems by T'ao Ch'ien
  Yuan Mei, End of the Year, Something to Ridicule
  T'ao Ch'ien, Drinking Wine XVI, After the Ancients

Poems from "Traces: Fifty Generations of Zen Poetry "
  Seng Yu, To everything there is a season
  Ling Yi, Drinking Tea with Hermit Yuan at Greenmount Pool
  Cheng Fu, Freedom's Good
  Kuan Hsiu, Chung-nan Mountain Monk, Mean Alleyways, A Hundred Sorrows, Leaving It to You
  Ching Yun, The Old Man of the Creek
  Yuan Mei, So Be It
  Ching An, Making a Fool of Myself

Poem from "World Views: New Writing About Nature"
  Kuan Hsiu, Hymn on the Way

Poems from "Getting Past Words"
  Ching An, To Show You All, on the First Morning of the Year, Facing Snow and Writing What My Heart Embraces, On the Spot Where Shih-chia Tz Sits in Meditation
n the Spot Where Shih-chia Tz Sits in Meditation

 

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J.P. Seaton

Translations of the Chinese Masters



KUAN HSUI

Hymn on the Way

Grass and tree have the Buddha nature.
They are not different from me.
If I could just be like the grass and the trees,
I'd find the way in no time.
Men nowadays won't go the way:
point it out, and they curse it.
A wounded sigh for these folks:
paupers gone begging on a mountain of gold.