Good evening!
Looking up the deep dark sky with limitless soft snow falling down endlessly,
Ryokan made a poem:
The Great Triple Thousand Worlds
Standing in the soft snow falling,
In them also snow falling…
Awa-yuki-no nakani tachitaru
Michi-auchi mata sono-nakani
Awa-yuki-zo furu
あは雪の中に
たちたる三千大千世界
またその中に
沫雪ぞ降る
The Great Triple Thousand Worlds are all composed of the Middle Thousand Worlds,
which are all comprised of the Small Thousand Worlds.
Such are our worlds. We think of only one world here. Not so. Even in one snowflake
are the Great Triple Thousand Terrae. These are our life terrae.
3/5/13
Wishing worlds:
Each time, a good time (時々是好時, jiji kore kouji);
Every place, a good place (処々是好処, shosho kore kousho)!
