Daily Meditation: The Mountain
 

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Today's meditation features a composition by Chinese Buddhist poet  Li Po, called “Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain,” translated by Sam Hamill from Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese. This beautiful and short piece reminds us of the ephemeral nature of life.


Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain by Li Po

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.
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