Whereabouts is the hermit, I ask a lad under the pines
He is away gathering herbs, the lad replies
Must be somewhere in this mountain
Only the clouds are too deep to be certain
~ Translated by Dot, from Jia Dao’s “Visiting the Hermit With no Luck,” written in the Tang dynasty
松下問童子
言師採藥去
只在此山中
雲深不知處
賈島 (唐代) <<尋隱者不遇>>
Buddha Mind 