Ko Un - Apr 25, Iyengar II & I

Nothing like an intense pilgrimage to the Himalayas to change your perspective! “What is really important? What is not?” the latter may be a better question. How much baggage are we carrying that we truly don’t need?

With Never a Mirror

Washing with wind is fine.

Washing with sunshine is fine.

Body never washed

for a year, twelve or thirteen lunar months,

it's fine today just as it is.

Not even washed at birth,

a child just as it comes out is fine.

Growing up just as it grows up is fine.

Things like mirrors are useless.

Beneath the vast sky,

that mountain looking at me

and me looking at that mountain: just fine!