"Only the Mountain Remains"

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This gorgeous art is by Renée Meiffren-Lézine, a visual artist, dance researcher, and Buddhist Chaplain Thanks Renée!

Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain

The birds have vanished down the sky.

Now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,

until only the mountain remains.

by Li Po (Tang Dynasty poet)

Translated by Sam Hamill from Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese. Copyright © 2000 by Sam Hamill.

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