In reply to UKC/UKH Articles:
Chiao Jan
(730-799)
Inscribed on the wall of the hut by the lake
If you want to be a mountain-dweller...
No need to trek to India to find one
I have a thousand peaks
to pick from right here on the lake.
Fragrant grasses and white clouds
hold me here
What holds you there,
World-dweller?
Han-Shan 9th century
Among a thousand clouds and ten thousand streams,
here lives an idle man,
In the daytime wandering over green mountains,
At night coming home to sleep by the cliff.
Swiftly the springs and autumns pass,
But my mind is at peace, free from dust or delusion.
How pleasant, to know I need nothing to lean on,
To be still as the waters of the autumn river!