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I Don't Bow to Buddhas

Selected Poems of Yuan Mei

Re-accuring themes:
  • One does not have to give up everything in order to be Buddhist.
  • Dragon Veins- lines under the earth which are lines of energy
  • "10,000 things" = Everything
  • Mountain Metaphysics- uses mountains to create another world, mountains used as a means of enlightenment

 

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Selected Poems:
 
Speaking My Mind
When the clouds come the mountain
     "ontologically dismanifests."
When they go (I guess) it exhibits its
     phenomenological "mountainness."
Do you suppose
     the mountain knows?
 
Motto
When I meet a monk,
     I bow politely.
When I see a Buddha,
     I don't.
 
If I bow to a Buddha,
     the Buddha won't know.
But I honor a monk:
     he's here now, apparently,
     or, at least, he seems to be.

Poetry of Tao