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hridaya @hridaya@mas.to · Jul 11, 2026

Who takes the Cold Mountain Road takes a road that never ends the rivers are long and piled with rocks the streams are wide and choked with grass it's not the rain that makes the moss slick and it's not the wind that makes the pines moan who can get past the tangles of the world and sit with me in the clouds Cold Mountain (Han Shan) from "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain" – Red Pine (tr.) #tao #zen #poetry #hanshan #buddhism

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hridaya @hridaya@mas.to · Jul 03, 2026

The sage ... accomplishes very much indeed because it is the Tao that acts in him and through him. He does not act of and by himself, still less for himself alone. His action is not a violent manipulation of exterior reality, an "attack" on the outside world, bending it to his conquering will: on the contrary, he respects external reality by yielding to it, and his yielding is at once an act of worship, a recognition of sacredness, and a perfect accomplishment of what is demanded by the precise situation. –Thomas Merton, Mystics and Zen Masters (1967) #tao #zen #wuwei #thomasmerton

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hridaya @hridaya@mas.to · Jun 12, 2026

I enjoy the simple path between dark vines and mountain caves the wilderness has room to roam with white clouds for companions there's a road but not to town only mindless men can climb at night I sit on the rocks alone until the moon comes up Cold Mountain Cold Mountain (Han Shan) from "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain" -Red Pine (tr.) #tao #zen #poetry #buddhism

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