People's Abuse
People's abuse
has melted what was golden
and it has gone from the world
Fortune and misfortune
both belong to the land
of dreams
Don't look back
to this world
your old hole in the cellar
From the beginning
the flying birds have left
no footprints on the blue sky
--Muso Soseki (In Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo, and Judith Roitman, Zen Sourcebook, [Indianapolis: Hackett], pp. 182-183.)
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