MUSŌ SOSEKI

(1275–1351)

“SATORI” noted,

the mind, like quicksilver, goes,

falsely “enlightened,”

down those old wrongheaded roads,

each more wrong than one before.

[S.H.]

IF only people

would not come to visit me

in lonely mountains

where I have built my retreat

from the world’s many trials.

[S.H.]