蜗牛角内争何事？  
石火光中寄此身，   
随富随贫且欢喜，   
不开口笑是痴人。
白居易（772年─846年）     

What Can We Gain?    

What can we gain from within the tiny tentacles of
snail?

We should deposit the flaming and flash-like illusion
in this shell.   

Always be delighted either in rich or in poverty.

One who does not know laughing out loud is an idiot.

——– Poem by a great ancient poet Bei Ju-Ye (772 – 846) ———


  

Insight poem reflected and dedicated by: 紫衣

海海人生波萬丈

雲空潛潛無所蹤

形遷幻影憧憧夢

心寬滄海一聲笑

Worldly life disturbs our mind
like strokes of huge tidal waves.

We can calm ourselves

like how cloud rests in the vast emptiness.

All changing forms are illusion

like in dream.

Why not broaden our mind ocean-wide

and just laugh out loud.