生死の中の雪ふりしきるin the midst of life and death the snow falls without end

生死は仏教語で、迷いの世界そのもののこと。その真っ只中に、雪はただ降りしきる。前書に引かれた修証義の一節「生を明らめ死を明らむるは仏家一大事の因縁なり」が、そのまま雪の景色になった。'Life-and-death' (shōji) is a Buddhist term for the world of delusion itself. Into the very midst of it, the snow simply falls without cease. The line from the Shushōgi quoted in the headnote — that to clarify life and to clarify death is the one great matter for those of the Buddha's house — becomes, just so, a landscape of snow.