Sadhu Song

With sacred robe on body hung
My bowl to beg my bread
This is the path of natural law
By which the birds are fed

From house to house my silent guest
And then a shady tree
While others toil, I contemplate
So independent free

Each day I live is life enough
Not of tomorrow think
Nor care what happened yesterday
But this day’s wisdom drink

The robe aside, the sacred fire
In deep samadhi’s bliss
I would not change for all the world
The simple life like this