Thơ vịnh Thập Mục Ngưu Đồ (Thiền Tông) – Song ngữ Anh Việt

Too many steps have been taken
returning to the root and the source.
Better to have been blind and deaf from the beginning!
Dwelling in one’s true abode,
unconcerned with that without —
The river flows tranquilly on and the flowers are red…