Sages mind so still
reflects the shoreline daily
Mystical Mirror
Erdos 2022
From Red Pine
CHUANG-TZU says, “The sage’s mind is so still, it can mirror Heaven and Earth and reflect the ten thousand things” (Chuangtzu:13.1).
Hsuan Ian: “Mystic vision” (Yutang) (Blakney) (Lin), “Mysterious Vision” (Cheng), “inner vision” (Wu), “Primal vision” (Feng),”profound insight” (Chan), “the abstruse reflections [of his mind]” (Ku), “vision of the Mystery” (Waley), “hidden perception” (Chan), “the channels of deep perception” (Mears), “secret seeing” (Wilhelm), “mind of phantasms” (Medhurst), “the dark look” (Erkes), “mirror of the dark” (Chen), “Mysterious mirror (i.e., the mind)” (Lau), “secret mirror” (Duy), “dark mirror” (Chung); “insight” (Wing), “eye of the heart” (Chalmers), “Mystical Mirror”—the imaging line that divides the conscious from the so-called unconscious (Ould)