
Bend down and there it is:
No need to wrest it from others.
With the Way, in complete agreement
The mere touch of a hand is spring:
The way we come upon blooming flowers,
The way we see the year renew itself.
What comes this way will stay;
What is gotten by force will drain away.
A secluded man in an empty mountain,
As rain drops, picks some blades of duckweed.
Freely to feel the flash of dawn:
Leisurely, with the celestial balance. [tooltip content= “Hiding the Universe: Poems of Wang Wei, Wai-lim Yip (Wushinsha-Grossman Press,1970)”] [source][/tooltip]
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Once More, on the Empty Mountain >>>
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Bird Song TorrentThe man at his ease: the cassia flowers falling. J.P. Seaton Return to Wang River
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Bird and Waterfall MusicMen sleep. The cassia blossoms fall. Kenneth Rexroth Passing Hidden Fragrance Temple
Francois Cheng Autumn Mountain EveningEmpty mountain, after rain, J.P. Seato
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Wang River poemsDeer ParkEmpty mountain, none to be seen. J.P. Seaton
A Cove of the Walls of MengNew home at the Walls of Meng. Wai-lim Yip
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Master-Flourish Ridge
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Birds Sing in the Ravine
Willis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone & Xu Haixin
In Retirement at Chung-nan Mountain
J.P. Seaton Reply to a Magistrate
Look! I make no plans for the future Let pine winds loosen my robes, You want to taste success or failure? Sam Hamill |
~Sitting in mystic bamboo grove, back unseen Ezra Pound Bamboo Lane HouseSitting alone, hid in bamboo Gary Snyder Bamboo PavilionI sit alone among the tallest of the tall bamboo, J.P. Seaton Deep South MountainTayai Mountain is close to the capital >Willis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone & Xu Haixin The Chungnan MountainsTaiyi isnt far from the Heart of Heaven Red Pine On the MountainChing gorge: white rocks jut. Francois Cheng |
Visiting the Temple of Gathered FragranceI dont know the Temple of Gathered Fragrance Willis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone & Xu Haixin
Thinking of Each otherRed Sandalwood grows in that southern land; Geoffrey Waters Reply to Vice-Prefect ZhangThese last few years, I search for quietude; Michael Farman Visiting Fragrance Accumulated TempleI didnt know about Fragrance Accumulated Temple, David Lunde South Mountain RetreatIn my middle years, I embraced the Way Michael Farman |
Wang Wei Video Clip
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