(1) Searching for the Ox
(1) Searching for the Ox
Brushing aside thick grasses I pursue him,
In wide rivers, distant mountains, and paths without end.
Exhausted, unable to find him anywhere,
I only hear evening cicadas in the maple trees.
十牛圖頌 廓庵禪師
(一) 尋牛:
茫茫撥草去追尋,水闊山遙路更深,
力盡神疲無處覓,但聞楓樹晚蟬吟。
Artist: Chen, Chao Bao, Taiwan, 2007, for the Chung Tai Zen Center of Sunnyvale