Kaku-an Shi-en
Sung Dynasty China ca.1300 AD
Poem For The Eighth Ox-Herding Picture
Nothing there
No whip - no rope - no man - no ox
Who can tell the size of the sky?
No snowflakes fall above the fire
When all this is so
The ancient Mind appears
From a translation by D. T. Suzuki
Stewart McKenzie
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/truism-07-ox-and-man-vanish/
