True emptiness is like a translucent sea
where the faintest movement makes foam
as soon as we have a body
we worry about food and clothes with feelings racing past like horses and delusions as restless as monkeys
until we understand the Master of Emptiness
the Wheel of Rebirth rolls on

— Stonehouse

from "The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse" - Red Pine (tr.)

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