🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Otagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875) 🪷

✨ Fluttering in a field / of flowers and dew / now dozing away... / who while dreaming / comes as this butterfly? — Otagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875) ✨

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> The bell, the little bird and, finally, me:
> We’re all different, but we’re all good.
https://zocalopoets.com/2012/12/19/金子-みすゞ-were-all-different-but-were-all-good-tutti-diversi-tutti-ugualmente-giusti/

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> 鈴と、小鳥と、それから私、みんなちがって、みんないい。
> The bell, the bird, and me,
we are all different, and we are all good.

https://www.takibeni.co.jp/2024/04/01/金子みすゞ「私と小鳥と鈴と」の英訳/

金子 みすゞ Kaneko Misuzu: We’re all different, but we’re all good… / Tutti diversi, tutti ugualmente giusti…

Kaneko Misuzu (Japanese poetess, 1903-1930) “Me, the little bird, and the bell” . 私が両手をひろげても、(watashi ga ryōte wo hirogete mo) お空はちっとも飛べないが、(osora wa chitto mo tobenai ga) 飛べる小鳥は私のように、 (toberu koto…

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875)

If somehow
the lotus in my heart
should begin to open
like this one
how glad I would be. — Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875)

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