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Wurusi temple kitchen
Cold Firepit
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Hanshan Deqing 1564-1623
The fire pit is cold the stone bed like ice
the clay censor died before the end of the night
the world of sound is silent my mind completely still
and now it seems my body exists inside a mirror
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Dìlú Wúhuǒ
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Hánshān Déqīng 1564-1623
Dìlú wú huǒ shí chuáng hán
Wǎ dǐng xiāng xiāo zuòyè cán
Wàn yù shēng chénxīn gèng jì
Què yí shēn zài jìngzhōng kàn
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Notes: This translation from the anthology of Chinese monk poets, The Clouds Should Know Me By Know, edited by Red Pine and Mike O'Connor, published by Wisdom Press.
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