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Li Bai – Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain

April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 Vanessa Able

In this short poem, Li Bai writes about the experience of zazen (meditation) using some of the simplest and most common imagery of the time - birds and clouds for the passing phenomena of the mind, and the mountain for the stability of awareness, which eventually is the only thing that remains.

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Du Fu – Dreaming of Li Bai

March 18, 2020December 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

'This parting from the living brings constant pain,' wrote eighth-century Chinese poet Du Fu in an ode to friendship about his separation from Li Bai, who was in exile in the south of the country.

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