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Difficult neighbors!
Burning apartment towers!
Solitary nature lovers
Should try to up their game.

By which I mean to say:
Traffic hazards and shabby stores
Are just as good as
This or that.

The ancient masters slept without dreams and woke up without worries.
Their food was plain. Their breath came from deep inside them.

They didn’t cling to life, weren’t anxious about death.
They emerged without desire and reentered without resistance.

They came easily; they went easily.
They didn’t forget where they were from; they didn’t ask where they were going.

They took everything as it came, gladly, and walked into death without fear.
They accepted life as a gift, and they handed it back gratefully,

~ Chuang-tzu

You cannot describe it or draw it,
You cannot praise it enough or perceive it.
No place can be found in which
To put the Original Face;
It will not disappear even
When the universe is destroyed.

~ Mumon (13th c.)