Comment on Ask HN: Hacker Finances? / How much do you save each month?Comments−wickedchicken14y"Without a jot of ambition leftI let my nature flow where it will.There are ten days of rice in my bagAnd, by the hearth, a bundle of firewood.Who prattles of illusion or nirvana?Forgetting the equal dusts of name and fortune,Listening to the night rain on the roof of my hut,I sit at ease, both legs stretched out." Ryokan (1757-1831)−throwaway2122214yOn the eleventh day he was probably wishing he had thought about getting some more rice or conserving what he had. Maybe I am missing the point of this poem.
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"Without a jot of ambition left
I let my nature flow where it will.
There are ten days of rice in my bag
And, by the hearth, a bundle of firewood.
Who prattles of illusion or nirvana?
Forgetting the equal dusts of name and fortune,
Listening to the night rain on the roof of my hut,
I sit at ease, both legs stretched out."
On the eleventh day he was probably wishing he had thought about getting some more rice or conserving what he had. Maybe I am missing the point of this poem.