(Photo: Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary, Quảng Nam)
SERENE POETIC LINES
(HT. Thích Tịnh Đức)
Still smiling through everything changing
Just as the night ends, the day follows the night
Walking for a long time, people are tired and stopping for a break
Perching for a long time, birds feeling sad flap their wings to fly.
Escaping a forest hut, the soul is light and peaceful
Splitting the hair in pieces, they will be more troublesome
Nothing loses, nothing gains
Going back to sleep on the reed bank, white clouds fly.
Like clouds flying freely here and there
Helping sentient beings be more shades of the rain source
Lightly watering the vegetable garden, cabbage, and melon
Letting the ground be full of flowers and buds
Finishing working, I go back to my old place
Farewell from life, peacefully sleeping forever…
The Most Venerable Elder Master Thích Tịnh Đức, the Abbot of Đạo Quang Temple in Garland, Texas, had to go to the hospital for surgery because of his illness, and now he has returned to the Temple to recuperate. Due to his weak health and advanced age, his recovery was very slow and not very positive according to the prognosis of the medical doctors’ care! Yesterday during a visit by SBTN, they recorded a video clip of a poem he read as a message of his final teaching to Buddhists everywhere while he was lying on his sick bed. Praying the powerful blessings of the Triple Gem for his health for a quick recovery.
By Ven. Thích Trừng Sỹ
