In March of 2002, I made my first visit to England. But as I walked on the streets of London, everything felt so familiar to me. I was overwhelmed by an unexplainable and yet intense emotion. It made me think about ones previous lives and also one's current life.
The same road layered with rectangular bricks A March with busy people on the busy streets Unfamiliar noises Familiar loneliness A touch of sadness flows by
Fine rain and gentle wind Make one once again touch upon The memory of a previous life Gorgeous dusk Ivy underneath the setting sun
Time flows by like water Layers upon layers Mirror of age Azure and distant A life is like a beautiful flower or piece of jade A shadow chasing waves
In another March of this ancient city There might be a poet who walked around while reciting poems Standing in the rain and singing as the best year of his life went by In the midst of impenetrable attachments Feasted upon the tens of thousands joys and sorrows of a life time
Maybe there was a free-spirited beggar Underneath the chilly wind and bright moon, day after day Asking where life starts and where it ends Accompanied by the sound of his footsteps covering the ninety-nine thousand miles He walked through all the gains and losses of this material world
In one instant he obtained enlightenment [..] |
Translated from:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2002/9/7/18420.html
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