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Both Life and Death Are Fine
"For an image of life and death
Consider ice and water
Water freezes into ice
Ice melts back into water
What dies must live again
What lives is bound to die
Ice and water don’t harm each other
Both life and death are fine"
Translation of Cold Mountain poem taken from: The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Red Pine and Copper Canyon Press. Cold Mountain: 100 poems by the T’ang Poet Han-shan, Burton Watson. Poem voiced by "Sunny".