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Li Po - In the mountains
Identifier
016730
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
This must be one of the most beautiful poems there is about what it means to have a spiritual experience.
A description of the experience
From Li Po and Tu Fu Poems – translated and with an introduction by Arthur Cooper [Penguin classics]
In the Mountains
you ask
why I perch
on a jade green mountain?
I laugh
but say nothing
my heart
quiet
peach petals
float on streams
away in secret
to other skies and earths
than those of mortals.