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== The Path ==
by Shinzen Young

 
If anybody asks you what the Path is about, 
It's about generosity. 
It's about morality. 
It's about concentration. 
It's about gaining insight through 
focused self-observation. 
It's about the cultivation of subjective states 
of compassion and love based on insight. 
And it's about translating that compassion 
and love into actions in the real world. 
 

== Holy Longing ==
by Goethe, as translated by Shinzen Young

 
Tell it to no one but the wise 
For most will mock it right away 
The truly living do I prize 
Those who long in flame to die. 
 
In the coolness of love's evenings 
Where you beget and were begotten, 
You're overcome by strange new feeling 
As the silent candle brightens. 
 
No longer are you trapped and mired 
In the darkened shadowings 
But swept away by new desire 
To a higher lovemaking. 
 
Distance does not pall your flight 
Spellbound through the air you're borne 
Til at last mad for the light 
You are a butterfly, then... gone. 
 
And until you know of this: 
How to grow through death 
You're just another grumpy guest, 
On the gloomy earth. 
 

== The Best Season of Your Life ==
by Wu-men, as translated by Shinzen Young

 
Spring brings the flowers. 
Autumn, the moon. 
Summer's refreshing breeze. 
Winter's delightful freeze. 
Once you have unburdened mind, 
you find that every season's kind. 
 

== The Buddha in Glory ==
by Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by Shinzen Young in July, 1998

 
Center of all centers, core of cores, 
almond that enclosed itself to sweeten – 
all of this, to the furthest stars 
is your fruit-flesh: hear my greeting. 
 
See, you feel nothing more upon you clinging; 
your shell is open wide without a bound, 
your ripe sap, infinite and streaming. 
was aided by a light from far beyond, 
 
Then, all above you, 
full and fiery orbited your suns. 
But that which will outlive the stars, 
by you has now been won.

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