Practice.. Poem by Luo Zhihai

修炼

空山鸟语，久住山中知鸟性
烟寺禅修，常临寺内悟禅心
何处情归，猿声雁阵松间雨
哪时梦醒，梅韵月魂垄上人


Practice

In the empty mountain the birdsongs
long lived in the mountain
I knew characters of birds
In the smoky temple Buddhist meditation
often entered in the temple
I understood Zen mind

What time does my dream wake?
the plum rhymes and the moon soul
a person on the raised path between fields
Where do my feelings return?
the gibbon's howls and the formation of flying swan goose
rain between the pines

1/18/2019对联体 ● 十一绝罗志海著译
Two Pairs of Couplets ● Eleven Words of Quatrain by Luo Zhihai
第7694首对联体诗
The 7,694th Two Pairs of Couplets