Letting change happen

I settled at Cold Mountain a while ago, already it seems like years and years.

Freely drifting, I wander the woods and streams
And sit there, watching things themselves; I am satisfied.
Not many come this far into the mountains,
White clouds sometimes touch and pass, thin grass does for a mattress,
The blue sky makes a good cover, a stone under my head.
I am happy

I’ll let heaven and earth go about their changes.

Han Shan, Cold Mountain, poem 12

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