Rivers-and-Mountains

Repost of Episode 389

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “Crossing the lake from South Mountain to North Mountain.”

Isn’t this how heaven and earth touch us,
this exquisite burgeoning forth of things:

young bamboo still wrapped in green slips
and new rushes fluttering purple flowers…?

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Repost of Episode 388

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “Dwelling in the mountains #27.”

I devoted myself to Way long ago, when I was still young,
awakening to the love all beings naturally feel for life,

and was led by this to see it throughout the realm of things.

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Repost of Episode 387

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “On a tower beside the lake.”

Isolate dwelling so easily becomes forever.
It’s hard settling the mind this far apart,

but not something ancients alone master:
that serenity is everywhere apparent here.

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Repost of Episode 386

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “Returning across the lake from our monastery at Stone-Screen Cliff.”

When worry ends, things take themselves lightly,
and when thoughts lull, the inner pattern abides.

I offer this to adepts come refining their lives:
try this old Way of mine, make it search enough.

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Repost of Episode 385

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “There are towering peaks on every side of my spirit’s true home atop Stone-Gate Mountain’s impossible crags, winding streams and rocky falls, thick forests and tall bamboo.”

Slant light igniting cliffs never lasts long,
and echoes vanish easily in forest depths:

letting go of sorrow returns us to wisdom,
seeing the inner pattern ends attachment.

…these aren’t things people understand:
I need to talk them over with a true sage.

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Repost of Episode 384

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “I’ve put in gardens south of the fields, opened up a stream and planted trees.”

You can heal here among these gardens,

sheltered from rank vapors of turmoil,
wilderness clarity calling distant winds.

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Repost of Episode 383

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “The Journey Home.”

It’s late autumn, heaven’s compassion-deep
skies bottomless above a world gone frail.

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Repost of Episode 382

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re continuing our series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “Climbing Green-Cliff Mountain in Yung-Chia.”

Utter tranquillity, the distinction between
yes this and no that lost, I embrace primal

unity, thought and silence woven together,
that deep healing where we venture forth.

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Repost of Episode 381

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re starting a new series on the ancient form of Chinese poetry called shan-shui, or Rivers-and-Mountains, using selections from The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun.  Today we’re using a selection from “Dwelling in the mountains #5.”

I devoted myself to simplicity and returned to it all,

left that workaday life for this wisdom of wandering,
for this wilderness of rivers-and-mountains clarity.

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