Rebirth

You should not make the mistake of thinking

that the childlike heart the sages proclaim

is the state that precedes the age of discretion;

for that kind of infancy, infant immaturity,

is shackled by instinctive impulses

or else is merely complacent and narrow,

while the spirit of childhood

that we have to attain

is an innocence, a simplicity,

an artlessness

that arise from 'rebirths' such as

recognition of the truth

and victory over self.

~Ku Sang (English translation by Brother Anthony)