The Orchid Door: Ancient Korean Poems by Tr. Joan S.Grigsby - HTML preview

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His Shadow in The Water

Yi Kyu Bo.




The Buddhistic trend of thought which appears in the following is traceable to the fact that, although a Confucianist, Yi Kyo Bo had many Buddhist friends. He was at all times deeply interested in their teaching and sympathetic towards their philosophy.


Walking beside the river

I watch my shadow dance

From ripple to ripple in wild contortionings.

I think of So Tongpa by the Yungsoo Pool.

What did he see?

Only a windblown shadow?

Two hundred eyebrows and one hundred beards?

Or did he gaze until, beneath his shadow,

He found the wisdom I am always seeking?

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