Sun Buer: Spirit and energy should be clear as the night air;

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Spirit and energy should be clear as the night air;

by Sun Buer
(1124 - 1182?) Timeline

English version by
Thomas Cleary

Original Language
Chinese

Taoist

12th Century

Spirit and energy should be clear as the night air;
In the soundless is the ultimate pleasure all along.
Where there's reality in illusion
Is illusion in reality,
For the while playing with magical birth
In the silver bowl.

-- from Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women, Edited by Thomas Cleary

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Themes

Birth, Rebirth

Night

Womb

Recommended Books

	Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women, Edited by Thomas Cleary
	The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone
	Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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