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.
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,
changeless in its changing
and everywhere revealed,
the sun might be lighting
a rendered wall inscribed
by winter tree’s shadow;
I offer obeisance to the God and Goddess,
The limitless primal parents of the universe.
They are not entirely the same,
Nor are they not the same.