<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; font-feature-settings: 'onum' 1; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(45, 45, 45) !important;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">A Spring Day</span> </span> </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; font-feature-settings: 'onum' 1; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(45, 45, 45) !important;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">On the eighth day of a spring month,</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;" class=""> in a time called the white year,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">I tried to hold my mind and make it <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">still— <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">my mind that wanders aimlessly.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">Repeatedly I tried, ever more dejectedly.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">I wished to merge my mind<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">in the sky of unstained space;<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">I wished to float my body<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">lightly, in dancing clouds.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">Like a breeze in the open air,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">my mind yearns to drift, ill at ease <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">in rest.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">Yet now, before the sun turns red<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">and sets,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">may I leave this place, this gaping <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">state— <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">a field of lotus groves, spacious,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">blissful,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">a mind at ease and joyful.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- <span style="color: rgb(45, 45, 45);" class="">Kelsang Gyatso, seventh Dalai Lama</span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> (Translated by <span style="color: rgb(45, 45, 45); text-align: center;" class="">Thupten Jinpa and Jas’ Elsner)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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