The winds have died, but flowers go on falling;
birds call, but silence penetrates each song.The Mystery! Unknowable, unlearnable.
The virtue of Kannon.

Ryokan
from the book The Poetry of Zen
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The winds have died, but flowers go on falling;
birds call, but silence penetrates each song.The Mystery! Unknowable, unlearnable.
The virtue of Kannon.