Kukai- “Singing Image of Fire”
A hand moves, and the fire’s whirling takes different shapes:
All things change when we do.
The first word,”Ah,” blossoms into all others.
Each of them is true.
(Trans. by Jane Hirshfield)
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Kûkai (710–784CE), trans.
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