“The great path has no gates,
Thousands of roads enter it.
When one passes through this gateless gate
He walks freely between heaven and earth.”
(Mum-on in the introduction to the Mum-on-kan)
Liège-Bressoux (B)
The gates of surprise
If I could shut the gate …
“If I could shut the gate against my thoughts,
And keep out sorrow from this room within,
Or memory could cancel all the notes
Of my misdeeds, and I unthink my sin,
How free, how clear, how clean my soul should lie,
Discharged of such a loathsome company.”
(Anonymus in If I could shut the gate …)
Liège-Chartreuse (B)
