Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 13

 

Poems made on the first born body by parents:

 

Province in the deep mountain

Being sought and entered

Is the original capital city

I’ve lived with familiarity.

 

Fubo-sho-shoshin-wo eizu

 

Tazune-iru

Miyamano oku-no

Sato-zo moto

Ware suminareshi

Miyako narikeri

 

詠父母初生身

 

尋ね入る

みやまの奥の

里ぞもと

我すみなれし

京なりけり

 

 

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          Eiheiji

 

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Eiheiji, Karamon

 

 

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    Autumn Vista, Adirondacks, National Geographic

 

Note: Sho (初, first) in the title may be miscopying sho (所, making passive form) or

intended to mean “the first” from “the unborn, 未生、父母未生, before parents’

giving birth).

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