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Favor and disgrace are meaningless

by Wu Cailan
(9th Century) Timeline

English version by
Thomas Cleary

Original Language
Chinese
Taoist
9th Century

Favor and disgrace are meaningless --
What's the use of contending?
Drifting clouds do not obstruct the shining moonlight.
Let the ox and the horse be called,
To both I can respond --
But how could I let a speck of dust
Into the city of the mind?

 

 

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

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Themes

  Moon
 
 
 
 


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Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women, Edited by Thomas Cleary
The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone

 

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