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03-19-2010, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Jonas06 View Post
The Japanese monk and founder of the Zen Soto sect, Dogen, wrote the following poem which I desperately would like to see in its original Japanese:

Because the mind is free --
Listening to the rain
Dripping from the eaves,
The drops become
One with me.

Ching-ch'ing's raindrop sound, I believe is the title.

Thank you very much,
聞くままに また心なき身にしあれば
おのれなりけり 軒の玉水
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