There is a calm wisdom in this old saying that impressed me when I heard it first from a monk of a Buddhist monastery in China.

这句中国的古语里有种平静的智慧，它给我的印象很深，最初是由中国佛教寺院中的一位和尚告诉我的。

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Seeing the old monk speaking words in a lofty manner, I was somewhat surprised. From his behavior and conversation, it seems that he was not an ordinary monk.

我见老僧出语不俗，心中有几分纳罕，其举止言谈，看来不像是等闲的和尚。

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An old monk in a temple down my lane had inserted tiny bamboo flutes into the tail-feathers of his flock of pigeons. As they wheeled over my roof, they trailed an aeolian music behind them.

离我不远的庙里，老和尚把细竹笛塞进鸽子的尾羽里，它们在我的屋顶上盘旋，身后留下一串串风般的音乐。

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And an old monk came to me and asked in a kind voice if I was hungry.

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Shijo Bridge, in front of you, might be the ground zero of Kyoto old and new: a monk is standing, stock-still, collecting coins, and the mountains to the north are blue in the dusk.

BBC: The walk that made me love Japan