← Feed

Posts

• View post

  One moon seen as one in all the waters. All waters' moon, that one moon holds. Thus, the Buddha-dharma in my being, my being at one with the Awakened One. Hsuan Chueh #zen #poetry #buddha #dharma

• View post

  The nature of man the moon gazers vanish more quickly than the moon Issa #haiku

• View post

  Stone River's rushing waters lit by bright flashes of lightning Issa #haiku

• View post

  Before the cliffs I sat alone the moon shone in the sky but where a thousand shapes appeared its lantern cast no light the unobstructed spirit is clear the empty cave is a mystery a finger showed me the moon the moon is the hub of the mind Cold Mountain (Han Shan) from "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain" – Red Pine (tr.) #tao #zen #poetry #hanshan #buddhism

• View post

  The dew is scattered, And today once more The seeds of Hell are sown. Issa #haiku

• View post

  Jade green pool spring water's clear. The spirit of itself brings dark mysteries to light. Meditate on emptiness: it's all the more quiet. Han Shan #tao #zen #poetry #hanshan #buddhism

• View post

  Contemplate bonsai There, but for the constricting bowl, Would be a giant Jinna Johnson from "A Thousand Petals" #haiku

• View post

  A single white birch Shimmers in the dormant air So pale and silent Jinna Johnson from "A Thousand Petals" #haiku

• View post

  paddy field the wet soil holds a folk song Malika Chari from "Late Blooming Cherries" #haiku

• View post

  the sky rolling on a lotus leaf— dewdrop R Suresh Babu from "Late Blooming Cherries" #haiku

• View post

  Man is a part Of the Largeness Called Nature. One part in an infinity of parts. None higher, None lower. Each has value and Fulfills its purpose. Do not interfere. Wu Hsin #wuhsin #nature #tao

• View post

  Don't escape, don't seek, but face the fact of what you are. J. KRISHNAMURTI #krishnamurti

• View post

  Your mind is wherever your thought is. If your mind is preoccupied with something, you are in that place. If you can be in no-thought, instantly you are in the place of freedom. Papaji #papaji #silence #stillness #nonduality #nothought

• View post

  All around my house, pond frogs, from the beginning, sang about old age Kobayashi Issa #haiku

• View post

  Equation I love you therefore I am in the present. I write, beloved, and retrieve the past. Nizar Qabbani from "On Entering the Sea" – Lena Jayyusi & Diana Der Hovanessian (trs.) #poetry

• View post

  To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away. Shunryu Suzuki #zen #buddhism #impermanence #shunryusuzuki

• View post

  WHEN YOU CAN ENDURE When The words stop And you can endure silence That reveals your heart's Pain Of emptiness Or that great wrenching-sweet longing That is the time to try and listen To what the Beloved's Eyes Most want To Say Hafiz from "The Gift" – Daniel Ladinsky (tr.) #hafiz #poetry #sufism #silence

• View post

  Let me leave this world in memory of this worthless self at least a name as one who left that world behind SAIGYŌ from "Gazing At The Moon" Buddhist Poems of Solitude - Meredith McKinney (tr.) #poetry #Saigyo #solitude #buddhism

• View post

  From birthing's washbowl to the washbowl of the dead— blathering nonsense! Kobayashi Issa #haiku

• View post

  Among blooming flowers we continue our writhing— all living beings Kobayashi Issa #haiku

• View post

  "We are on guard against contagious diseases of the body, but we are... careless when it comes to the even more dangerous collective diseases of the mind." Carl Jung #CarlJung

• View post

  In the midst of this world we stroll along the roof of hell gawking at flowers Kobayashi Issa #haiku

• View post

  The slightly bent lotus stem — appropriate symbol of our world Kobayashi Issa #haiku

• View post

  A GREAT NEED Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That. – Hafiz from "The Gift" – Daniel Ladinsky (tr.) #Hafiz #Poetry

• View post

  There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me. Jiddu Krishnamurti #krishnamurti

• View post

  To practice is to go beyond ideas, so you can arrive at the suchness of things. #zen #buddhism #thichnhathanh

• View post

  Who takes the Cold Mountain Road takes a road that never ends the rivers are long and piled with rocks the streams are wide and choked with grass it's not the rain that makes the moss slick and it's not the wind that makes the pines moan who can get past the tangles of the world and sit with me in the clouds Cold Mountain (Han Shan) from "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain" – Red Pine (tr.) #tao #zen #poetry #hanshan #buddhism

• View post

  The sage ... accomplishes very much indeed because it is the Tao that acts in him and through him. He does not act of and by himself, still less for himself alone. His action is not a violent manipulation of exterior reality, an "attack" on the outside world, bending it to his conquering will: on the contrary, he respects external reality by yielding to it, and his yielding is at once an act of worship, a recognition of sacredness, and a perfect accomplishment of what is demanded...

• View post

  Under shady trees resting with a butterfly— this, too, is karma Kobayashi Issa #haiku

• View post

  In the old temple, even the snake has shed his worldly skin Kobayashi Issa #haiku