by admin | Sep 25, 2023 | Poems by Men, Taoist
What is Tao?It is just this.It cannot be rendered into speech.If you insist on an explanation,This means exactly this.
by admin | Sep 19, 2023 | Poems by Men, Taoist
Ah! when the darkness blinds the orb of dayThis cold clear spring chatters my grief away,And, as the current whirls along,She lilts a little wordless song;This little wizard, clear and cold,Echoes the thoughts I left untold,And for music I have the soundOf the tall...
by admin | Sep 17, 2023 | Poems by Men, Taoist
go where my mind willsit when my heart’s stilldrink when I’m thirstyand sing when I’m drunkwhen hard times comeI find a pile of grass and sleepthe days and months are longthe world is vastand idleness is happinesstoss off the vintage wineuse up the...
by admin | Jul 5, 2023 | Poems by Women, Taoist
Before our body existed,One energy was already there.Like jade, more lustrous as it’s polished,Like gold, brighter as it’s refined.Sweep clear the ocean of birth and death,Stay firm by the door of total mastery.A particle at the point of open awareness,The...
by admin | Jun 30, 2023 | Poems by Men, Taoist
You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,and I smile, and am silent,and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns.The peach trees blossom,The water flows.
by admin | Jun 30, 2023 | Poems by Men, Taoist
The fields are chill, the sparse rain has stopped;The colours of Spring teem on every side.With leaping fish the blue pond is full;With singing thrushes the green boughs droop.The flowers of the field have dabbled their powdered cheeks;The mountain grasses are bent...
