{"id":4551,"date":"2020-03-13T23:45:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2020-03-20T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T03:15:16","slug":"poem-the-river-and-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/poem-the-river-and-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: The River and the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 150%;\">Translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/category\/ven-thich-trung-sy\/\">Th\u00edch Tr\u1eebng S\u1ef9<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4552\" src=\"http:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/song-va-bi\u1ec3n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/song-va-bi\u1ec3n.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/song-va-bi\u1ec3n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/song-va-bi\u1ec3n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/song-va-bi\u1ec3n-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">I have never seen the sea<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">I only know a stream of a river<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">But I heard a teacher tell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">The sea is wider than the river<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">The sea is vast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">The immensity of blue sea is salty concentration<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">A human life is like the river<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">If anyone lives for himself or herself, the heart is narrower than the river.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">If anyone lives for all people, the heart is vast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">I have never seen the sea<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">I only know the stream of the river<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">But I heard the teacher tell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">Do not let your heart be as narrow as the river<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">Let your heart widen immensity\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">The immensity of blue sea is salty concentration<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">The human life is like the river<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">If anyone lives for himself or herself, the heart is narrower than the river.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">If anyone lives for all people, the heart is vast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">I have never seen the Buddha<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">I only know his picture<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">But I heard the teacher tell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">The Buddha is in the mind<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">The Buddha is in the mind<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">Stay in all people<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">If anyone lives for himself or herself, the Buddha is hidden away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">If anyone lives for all people, the Buddha shows everywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translated by Th\u00edch Tr\u1eebng S\u1ef9 &nbsp; &nbsp; I have never seen the sea I only know a stream of a river But I heard a teacher tell The sea is wider than the river The sea is vast. The immensity of blue sea is salty concentration A human life is like the river If anyone [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237,238,217,331],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4625,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions\/4625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}