Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It

Learn the rules, and then forget them.

Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.

Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.