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Yi Han Yue: Return to the True
Gazing far at the distant mountains, the lance held crosswise; one by one the great catastrophes come loose. The causes and effects of the dust of before are all of them ordinary; surpassing the desolation, the karma that remains.
In the vast sky a white egret cries; I strike the sword's scabbard, and the spirit is turned over and over. In the dream of this floating life, impermanence is the teaching; seeing through the road of fate, I go free and unstinting.
Glosses—
Lance held crosswise (heng shuo): describes a bold and heroic bearing;
Zhui gen: to surpass;
Free and unstinting (hui huo): unrestrained, easy and unbound.
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