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Author: Julien DuBrow

Yen-shou’s Poem of Enligthenment

Poet: Yung-ming Yen-shou

Something dropped! It is no other thing;
Right and left, there is nothing earthy:
Rivers and mountains and the great earth,–
In them all revealed is the Body of the Dharmaraja.

When the World Comes Clear

Poet: Andrew Colliver

When the world comes clear,
changeless in its changing
and everywhere revealed,

the sun might be lighting
a rendered wall inscribed
by winter tree’s shadow;