蠅子透窗
北宋 白雲守端禪師（1025～1072）

為愛尋光紙上鑽，不能透處幾多般；
忽然撞著來時路，始覺半生被眼瞞。

──《林間錄》卷下

Verse on a Housefly Entering the Window
Baiyun Shouduan (1025 - 1072, Northern Song Dynasty)
English translation: John Balcom

For love I seek the light by pouring over books;
I was unable to leave that place—how difficult.
Suddenly, I arrive on the road I came from
And begin to awaken to the past my eyes had cheated from me.

── from Lin Jian Lu (Record of Training in the Forest)