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· Return to the True
I gaze at the far mountains, lance held crosswise; one by one the great calamities come undone. All the cause and effect of the was ordinary after all; I pass beyond what lonely karma remains.
A white egret cries down the long sky; I strike my scabbard, and my spirit overturns. In the dream of this , impermanence is the lesson; seeing clean through the road of fate, I go free and unstinting.
Glosses—
Lance held crosswise (héng shuò): describes a bold and heroic bearing;
Zhuī gèn: to surpass;
Free and unstinting (huī huò): unrestrained, easy and unbound.
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