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Watching the moon
at dawn,
solitary, mid-sky,
I knew myself completely:
no part left out.


Poem by Izumi Shikibu (974-1034) from The Enlightened Heart, Stephen Mitchell (Ed.), Harper & Row ,1989.
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No Part Left Out

Meditation on a poem by Izumi Shibuku about looking at the moon.

The birds have vanished down the sky Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains.


-Li Po
(translated by Sam Hamill)
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Zazen on Ching-ting Mountain

Poem by Li Po.

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