Today's Beautiful Gem: "Why" by Nanao Sakaki, translated by Gary Snider.
"WHY
Why climb a mountain?
Look! a mountain there.
I don't climb a mountain.
Mountain climbs me.
Mountain is myself.
I climb on myself.
There is no mountain
nor myself.
Something
moves up and down
in the air."
Om shantiH! - J. K. Mohana Rao
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