"If you want to be a mountain dweller...
no need to trek to India to find a mountain...
I've got a thousand peaks
to pick from, right here in this lake.
Fragrant grasses, white clouds,
to hold me here.
What holds you there,
world-dweller?"
Chiao Jan (730 - 799)
from _The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry_
Edited by J. P. Seaton
http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/J/JanChiao/InscribedonW.htm
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