Tian-tai Trio
Han-shan ("Cold Mountain"), and his sidekicks Shih-te ("Pick Up" or "Foundling"), and Fengkan ("Big Stick" as he was six-foot tall), were known as the "Tian-tai Trio," wandering Tang Dyansty lunatic hermit-monks, who sometimes lived at the Guoqing Temple of the Tian-tai sect in the Tian-tai mountain range by the East China Sea. They, like Monk Ji-gong, were known for their unconventional behavior as well as their poetry. The following poem is by Han-shan:
Children, I implore you
get out of the burning house now.
Three carts await outside
to save you from a homeless life.
Relax in the village square
before the sky, everything's empty.
No direction is better or worse,
East just as good as West.
Those who know the meaning of this
are free to go where they want.
SOURCE: Red Pine (Bill Porter), The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain.
See "deliberate behavior" and "Monk Ji-gong"