{"id":894,"date":"2015-09-22T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/the-everyday-mind-that-is-the-way-buried-in\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:27:22","slug":"the-everyday-mind-that-is-the-way-buried-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/the-everyday-mind-that-is-the-way-buried-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-894 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/the-everyday-mind-that-is-the-way-buried-in\/attachment\/896\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_nv2znyfNI51tk1xz2o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><i>The everyday mind: that is the way.<\/i><br \/><i>Buried in vines and rock-bound caves,<\/i><br \/><i>Here it\u2019s wild, here I am free,<\/i><br \/><i>Idling with the white clouds, my friends.<\/i><br \/><i>Tracks here never reach the world;<\/i><br \/><i>No-mind, so what can shift my thought?<\/i><br \/><i>I sit the night through on a bed of stone,<\/i><br \/><i>While the moon climbs Cold Mountain.<\/i><br \/>-Verse 23, Words from Cold Mountain, Han-Shan, 9th century<\/p>\n<p>(This isn\u2019t necessarily the verse in the painting &#8211; it\u2019s just a verse I like.)<\/p>\n<p>From Wikipedia:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Hanshan<\/b> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_language\" title=\"Chinese language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese<\/a>: \u5bd2\u5c71; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pinyin\" title=\"Pinyin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pinyin<\/a>: <i>H\u00e1nsh\u0101n<\/i>; literally: &ldquo;Cold Mountain&rdquo;, <i>fl.<\/i> 9th century) was a legendary figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tang_Dynasty\" title=\"Tang Dynasty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tang Dynasty<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taoism\" title=\"Taoism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taoist<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zen\" title=\"Zen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chan<\/a> tradition. No one knows who he was, or when he lived and died. <\/p>\n<p>You can read Words from Cold Mountain translated into English here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryintranslation.com\/PITBR\/Chinese\/HanShan.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poetry in Translation<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>There is also a graphic novel. \ud83d\ude00 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/cold-mountain-the-legend-of-han-shan-and-shih-te-the-original-dharma-bums\/oclc\/884480330&amp;referer=brief_results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find it in a library near you!<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>[Painting:\u00a0<b>Hanshan and Shide (\u5bd2\u5c71\u62fe\u5f97\u5716)\u00a0<\/b>Yintuoluo (\u56e0\u9640\u7f85, late Yuan dynasty), Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The everyday mind: that is the way.Buried in vines and rock-bound caves,Here it\u2019s wild, here I am free,Idling with the white clouds, my friends.Tracks here never reach the world;No-mind, so what can shift my thought?I sit the night through on a bed of stone,While the moon climbs Cold Mountain.-Verse 23, Words from Cold Mountain, Han-Shan, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/the-everyday-mind-that-is-the-way-buried-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[293,106,373,134,377,376,378,370,348,116,123,112,73,374,375,372],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-9th-century","tag-bardic","tag-buddhism","tag-chinese","tag-han-shan","tag-hanshan","tag-literature","tag-painting","tag-poetry","tag-sca","tag-scadian","tag-society-for-creative-anachronism","tag-tang-dynasty","tag-tao","tag-yuan-dynasty","tag-zen","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}