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Thursday, September 1, 2011

BASO'S SUN-FACED BUDDHA, MOON-FACED BUDDHA

碧巌録 


Life is joy and illness
two sides, one coin
death is caused by birth
stop and consider this.

Look into the face
of the evening sun,
will it retreat
from your eyes
or linger in memory?
Look into the face
of the full midnight moon,
does she have
the sun’s face
only until morning?