I must go there today –
Tomorrow the plum blossoms
Will scatter.
Ryokan
from the book Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan
translated by John Stevens
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- This world
- The moonlight comes and goes
- I now surrender
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