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Although Buddhism has been an important element in her work since at least the mid-1980s, recent years have seen her returning to the Buddhist classics more frequently as she reflects on what they say about life, death, and the nature of being. In recent years, she has been writing more about aging, suffering, and the impermanency of life-a theme brought home first by the death of her parents, then her dog, and then her partner the British-American artist Harold Cohen. [ Translator’s note: In the 1980s, Hiromi Ito emerged as one of Japan’s foremost poets, thanks to her powerful and dramatic writing about motherhood, childrearing, and sexual desire. This is an incantation that knows no equal.Īll suffering will leave you immediately. This is a powerful incantation that you will hear clearly. Know this wisdom that will carry you to the far shore. They have lived by it and will live by it.

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The things our hearts dwell upon go away.Īnd the heart free of suffering will grow clear.Īll awakened ones always follow this wisdom Yet neither is there any effort to rid ourselves There is also no hope our suffering and our confusion There is also no confusion that creates suffering. There are kinds of various kinds of suffering as grow old and die Nor does aging, dying, and suffering go away There is also no aging, dying, and suffering Nor does the suffering of not knowing go away. There is also no suffering of not knowing. To the world that can be sensed by the heart Ranging from the world that can be seen with the eyes There are various things that arise from the workings of the human heart There is also no world that can be sensed by the heart. There is also no world that can be seen with the eyes. There are also no colors, no shapes, no voices, no scents, no flavors,Īlso no tangible things, no thought-provoking things. There are also no eyes, no ears, no noses, no tongues There is also no increasing or decreasing. If we think of something as non-being that leads to being. Non-being is not any different than being. In his spiritual quest to discern based on deep wisdomĪvalokiteshvara arrived at a certain thought.īeing is not any different than non-being. While walking with people, searching for the path While looking freely and without effort at the world Translated from Japanese by Jeffrey Angles

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