Poetry Corner

[Jun]

All phenomena are impermanent
our emotions bring pain
there is no inherent existence of things
there can be nothing to gain

Buddhism is beyond culture
but practised by many human beings
their traditions are the cup
that holds the true teachings

Look beyond the words
look beyond the robes
look beyond the rituals
Dharma is also a verb

[Jun]

The mind is the Buddha,
the Buddha is the mind,
Beyond the mind there's no Buddha,
beyond the Buddha there's no mind.

From the Bloodstream sermon attributed to Bodaidaruma

Will could probably make a rather fly house-mix out of that! Hey Will?

[will]

Thanks for the idea. 8)

Is Bodaidaruma: Bohdidharma in Japanese?

Gassho will

[Jun]

Thanks for the idea. 8)

Is Bodaidaruma: Bohdidharma in Japanese?

Gassho will

Yep!

When you understand,
reality depends on you.
When you don't understand,
you depend on reality.
When reality depends on you,
that which isn't real becomes real.
When you depend on reality,
that which is real becomes false.
When reality depends on you,
everything is true.

From the wake-up sermon attributed to Bodaidaruma.

[Jarkko]

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
Speech is born out of longing,
True description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows;
the one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
And who lives as a sign for your journey?

-Rabia al Basri-

[Jarkko]

Few more..


The most important thing is to find out
what is the most important thing.
-Shunryu Suzuki-

Though I think not
To think about it,
I do think about it
And shed tears
Thinking about it.
-Ryokan-

[will]

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[Janice]

The Buddha's Last Instruction

“Make of yourself a light,”
said the Buddha,
before he died.
I think of this every morning
as the east begins
to tear off its many clouds
of darkness, to send up the first
signal – a white fan
streaked with pink and violet,
even green.
An old man, he lay down
between two sala trees,
and he might have said anything,
knowing it was his final hour.
The light burns upward,
it thickens and settles over the fields.
Around him, the villagers gathered
and stretched forward to listen.
Even before the sun itself
hangs, disattached, in the blue air,
I am touched everywhere
by its ocean of yellow waves.
No doubt he thought of everything
that had happened in his difficult life.
And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire –
clearly I’m not needed,
yet I feel myself turning
into something of inexplicable value.
Slowly, beneath the branches,
he raised his head.
He looked into the faces of that frightened crowd.

~ Mary Oliver ~

[will]

Just reading some of the poetry. Thanks again.

Gassho Will

[will]

re-edited:

Dogen,
If we grasp it, it's gone.
Bodhidharma,
The universe is my name.
Brothers and sisters - trees,
Mother- the sound of hammer on nail.
Say trees, hammers and nails,
With eyes, ear, and nose.
With fingers, knees, hair, and toes.
And without, sap, bark and leaves-

Even this speaks in the breeze.

Gassho Will

[will]

What are you cursing?
What are you hitting?
What are you loving?
Who is competing?
Where is this one?
Can you find them in the colors?
Why get angry at the Sun?
The moon doesn't care if your big or small,
So who is short and what is tall?

Gassho

[Jenny]

Poetry Corner

In the stillness by the empty window,
I sit in formal zazen.
Navel and nose in alignment
Ears parallel with shoulders.
Moonlight floods the room.
The rain stops, and the eaves drip.
Perfect the moment.
In the vast emptiness
my understanding deepens.

Ryokan

[Janice]

If there are mountains, I look at the mountains;
On rainy days I listen to the rain.
Spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Tomorrow too will be good.
Tonight too is good.

~ Taneda Santôka

[will]

Re: Poetry Corner

And this little bird I take under my wing,
To teach, to laugh, to be, and to sing,
As I Lift it's chin up, he flies on her own,
To teach, to live, to laugh, and disown.

W

[Eika]

Re: Poetry Corner

Nice, Will.

Thanks,
Bill