hymn for offering incense upon the buddha’s attainment of the path

courage, virtue, emptiness

 

The morning star

returns night after night;

the snows of the twelfth month 

linger from year to year.

 

Silly: Gautama’s

achieving some “special” state;

looking for a knife in the water by

marks in the ship’s hull.

 

Gidō Shūshin