Compassion has three faces

[Marek]

Re: Compassion has three faces

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[Taigu]

Re: Compassion has three faces

Compassion like a tiger would leap
A subtle and sudden bloom
A rash
A slow rush
Kannon s action is fueled
By the wounds and scars
Yours
Theirs
everybody's

Kannon gives a tongue to sky and sentient beings
She-he gives arms to the invisible
Ears to songs and words themselves
Kannon appears unoticed
Ordinary miracles
Sweat, laughs, grease,
Trafic, busy buses, lights and shadows
Kannon is sometimes an old mad woman
sometimes wrapped in the shape of a child
in a doctor, a caretaker, a policeman, a nobody
Kannon is flesh and blood of compassion

when you give this self to zazen
it becomes you
but it comes unoticed
you cannot see it
cannot hear it
can't even touch it
only once it's gone
only then

[Hoyu]

Re: Compassion has three faces

Thank you Taigu Sensei. Your words have made great companions throughout my day.

Gassho,
Hoyu

[Rimon]

Re: Compassion has three faces

Compassion like a tiger would leap
A subtle and sudden bloom
A rash
A slow rush
Kannon s action is fueled
By the wounds and scars
Yours
Theirs
everybody's

Kannon gives a tongue to sky and sentient beings
She-he gives arms to the invisible
Ears to songs and words themselves
Kannon appears unoticed
Ordinary miracles
Sweat, laughs, grease,
Trafic, busy buses, lights and shadows
Kannon is sometimes an old mad woman
sometimes wrapped in the shape of a child
in a doctor, a caretaker, a policeman, a nobody
Kannon is flesh and blood of compassion

when you give this self to zazen
it becomes you
but it comes unoticed
you cannot see it
cannot hear it
can't even touch it
only once it's gone
only then

Tears of joy

Thank you Teacher

[Mp]

Re: Compassion has three faces

Compassion like a tiger would leap
A subtle and sudden bloom
A rash
A slow rush
Kannon s action is fueled
By the wounds and scars
Yours
Theirs
everybody's

Kannon gives a tongue to sky and sentient beings
She-he gives arms to the invisible
Ears to songs and words themselves
Kannon appears unoticed
Ordinary miracles
Sweat, laughs, grease,
Trafic, busy buses, lights and shadows
Kannon is sometimes an old mad woman
sometimes wrapped in the shape of a child
in a doctor, a caretaker, a policeman, a nobody
Kannon is flesh and blood of compassion

when you give this self to zazen
it becomes you
but it comes unoticed
you cannot see it
cannot hear it
can't even touch it
only once it's gone
only then

Thank you Taigu ... just beautiful.

Gassho,
Michael

[alan.r]

Re: Compassion has three faces

three bows
to the three faces.
one more bow to the one face
of all three.

thank you so much for sharing.
-a

[AlanLa]

Re: Compassion has three faces

Such a wonderful description of how nirvana lives within dukka, where we so least expect it.

We are with you, Taigu.

[Myoku]

Re: Compassion has three faces

Gassho
Myoku