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Ssu-Kung Tu - Tranquil repose
Identifier
012886
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
From A Lute of Jade – Being selections from the Classical poets of China [The Wisdom of the East series] edited and translated by L. Cranmer-Byng and Dr S. Kapadia [1918]
Tranquil Repose
It dwells in the quiet silence,
Unseen upon hill and plain,
'Tis lapped by the tideless harmonies,
It soars with the lonely crane.
As the springtime breeze whose flutter
The silken skirts hath blown,
As the wind-drawn note of the bamboo flute
Whose charm we would make our own, --
Chance-met, it seems to surrender;
Sought, and it lures us on;
Ever shifting in form and fantasy,
It eludes us, and is gone.
The source of the experience
Ssu-Kung TuConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
CraneScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Believing in the spiritual worldCommuning with nature
Contemplation and detachment