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study of Soetsu Yanagi

『心偈』55

柳宗悦『心偈』 

「古シ泉ハ 新シ水ハ」   

フルシイズミハ アラタシミズハ

 The old spring is always new water gushing out.

 

It was a very old spring, but it wasn't old water in gushing out.

Although old and new are always quarreling, new one that it is going to be old one soon isn't real newness.

However it was said that oldness is the past, the real newness would have the newness passing through the old and the new.

 

以前はそれほど目を留めなかったこの泉のうたが、

現在の私に寄り添っているうたです。

進みそうで進まないけれど、今日はここまでにて。