The winds have died, but flowers go on falling;
birds call, but silence penetrates each song.
The Mystery! Unknowable, unlearnable.The virtue of Kannon.
Ryōkan Taigu (良寛大愚)
These incomparable words express so eloquently the mystery of inseparable emptiness and appearances. It’s also a stunning reflection on transience and the Deathless. How he holds both sets of seeming opposites, and reveals their nondual inseparability.
Poignant and profound indeed 🙂
