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The Oak Tree and the Garden

The poem is written by a member of Mountain Cloud. It's called Oak Tree. I've seen you from every angle bathed in pink morning light, trimmed with glimmering snow and hidden in your green summer sheath. But still, I don't know you. Your hulking roots plunging into the dark earth, your colossal skeleton reaching into the vast sky. So let us take this as an invitation to come home to our practice and let it unfold. Thank you for this shared practice.

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