Oorspronkelijke tekst van de calligrafie:
The long-abandoned
long-lost Dharma trail
a rush-choked field
trod open again
by this old man.
Bron: Yoshizawa, Katsuhiro and Waddell, Norman:
The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin.
Berkeley 2009, p. 83-84.
Vertaling: Gedel.