Selected Poems of Chia Tao

Jiǎ Dǎo;  Chia Tao) (779–843), was a Chinese Buddhist monk and poet active during the Tang dynasty.
His poems are lessons in mindfullness(though he did not write them for that purpose). They are snap shots of a landscape, a farewell, solitude in high mountains, stone chimes, and so on. Filling your heart with beauty of their simplicity.

Seeing Off a Man Of The Tao

When I find you again,
it will be in mountains;
this morning, I lose you
once more to farewell.
Free of attachment
in heart and mind--
is it why you can go
ten thousand li alone
to places with such
little human warmth,
where, when you meet someone,
they speak an ancient tongue?
Traveling without disciples,
you have only
a white dog
for company.

Rainy night, sent to Ma Tai

The woods are the fragrance
of blossoming apricot trees;
flowers scatter seed
east and west.
Rain this evening
on Serpentine Lake--
a north wind
blows hard and cold.
Letters go as far
as the blue sea and stop:
a hidden road
winds through mountain haze.
By a lone lamp,
in the hours before dawn,
quietly
I'm thinking of you.

li = A chinese mile, roughly equivalent to one-third of an English mile.

source : scibd