Tree by Jane Hirshfield and Ravi Kopra
It is foolish
to plant a banyan tree
near your house.
Its roots will grow under your house.
Its branches cover the roof slowly.
You have a choice in your life -
Among your books, your pots and pans
With your beloved, children and pets
To live life sanely or be Buddha like
Philosophising under the banyan tree.
-Ravi Kopra
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Tree
by Jane Hirshfield
It is foolish
to let a young redwood
grow next to a house.
Even in this
one lifetime,
you will have to choose.
That great calm being,
this clutter of soup pots and books –
Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.
Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.
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