"A yellow flower
(Light and spirit)
Sings by itself
For nobody.
A golden spirit
(Light and emptiness)
Sings without a word
By itself."
- Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton's Poetry: Emblems of a Sacred Season
"Mountain fruit drops in the rain
and grass insects sing under my oil lamp.
White hair, after all, can never change
as yellow gold cannot be created.
If you want to know how to get rid
of age, its sickness, study nonbeing."
- Wang Wei, 699-761
Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei, p. 129
Chan Buddhist (Zen) Poetry
The martial artists at the Shaolin Temple all studied Zen.
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