Kaku-an Shi-en <br />Sung Dynasty China ca.1300 AD <br />Poem For The Eighth Ox-Herding Picture <br /> <br />Nothing there <br />No whip - no rope - no man - no ox <br />Who can tell the size of the sky? <br />No snowflakes fall above the fire <br />When all this is so <br />The ancient Mind appears <br /> <br />From a translation by D. T. Suzuki<br /><br />Stewart McKenzie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/truism-07-ox-and-man-vanish/
