Moon Festival

Chuseok, or the Korean Moon Festival is this week ️?️?️? This is a time when Koreans visit their families and enjoy delicious foods. The moon ? plays a big part in Korean culture – especially its poetry. Here is one of our favorites, written over 700 years ago:

Saying Goodbye to a Monk

One who leaves home to be a monk must be completely free—
how many times have you entered the gates of enlightenment?
Walking alone, wandering outside the world of humans—
a refined heart looks from afar upon the world.

The body, lively, like a single cloud—
the mind, quiet: a mistless moon.
With the simplicity of a bowl and set of old clothes—
a bird ascending 10,000 mountains.

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