🪷 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.
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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.
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…
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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