In the real world, everything appears only as it is, neither beautiful or ugly, big or small. This is the true nature of things. One cannot know the Dào by the use of the thinking mind.

In his own time he was famous for his poetry as well as for his distinctive personality. This is the first complete translation into any language of all his extant poetry.

Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades.

磨뮴逞쏟，領導諒們將儉們菱성돨頭獗丹瞳錢幣鹿刻權瓜。쳄國훙則꼇谿，儉們將獨접、菱譚뵨췽寮돨蹶瀝丹瞳錢幣。 從錢였菱譚뵨썩렴 Throughout time, Leaders have put their own pictures ...