Dogen’s Doei (道元道詠): Poems in the Way, 29

Thirty casual poems at my grass hut (9):

 

The path-ends of

One foolish mind

One seems to tread

As the Six Paths.

 

 

Sōan-no gū-ei sanjisshu (9):

 

Orokanaru

Kokoro-hitotsu-no

Yuku-sue-wo

Mutsu-no Michi-to-ya

Hito-no fumu-ran

 

 

草庵之偶詠三十首 (0):

 

おろかなる

心一つの

行く末を

六つの道とや

人のふむらん

 

 

Note: The Six Paths/Ways/Destinies/Realms are where ordinary beings go or

go around (transmigrate) due to their karmas from life/moment to life/moment:

 

Hell beings path/destinies/realms (naraka-gati, 地獄道/趣)

Hungry ghosts path (peta-/preta-gati, 餓鬼道/趣)

Beasts path (tiracca-/tiryagyoni-gati, 畜生道/趣)

Fighting devils path (asura-/aśura-gati, 修羅道/趣)

Human beings path (manussa-/manuṣya-gati, 人間道/趣)

Celestial beings path (deva-gati, 天上道/趣)

 

 

 

Six Paths with the triple poisons in the center and

the Twelve-limbed Dependent Origination outside.

http://www.thangka-iori.net/photo/rokudou3.jpg

 

 

 

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