Zen Poems Thread

[Guest]

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!

- Kobayashi Issa

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From the white dewdrops,
Learn the way
To the pure land.

- Kobayashi Issa



Gassho
Bobby
Sat Today

[Myosha]

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,
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.


Eyes to hear, ears to see.^^

[Guest]

The Sun Will Shine


The sun will shine tomorrow
The rain will somehow end
This is not only a promise
It’s just the way it is


Bad times don’t last forever
The tough times they never stay
The heartache and the let down
Will soon go away


In times of deep sadness
The pain is all too real
And it’s hard to believe
That with time the hurt will heal


The dark clouds that hang above
Will eventually move on
And the storms that dance around
Will soon be gone


Stay strong and keep in mind
That again, the sun will shine

-Unknown

[Nindo]

Good to have you back, Bobby.
Stay strong.

Gassho
Nindo

[Mp]

Good to have you back, Bobby.
Stay strong.

Gassho
Nindo

I second that Bobby ... always enjoy your company! =)

Gassho
Shingen

SatToday

[Myosha]

Well versed in the Buddha way,
I go the non-Way
Without abandoning my
Ordinary person's affairs.
The conditioned and
Name-and-form,
All are flowers in the sky.
Nameless and formless,
I leave birth-and-death.
Layman P'ang

[Jishin]

with nowhere to go

from the deep below

great joy resurfaces


What goes down must come up. Hang in there Bobby.

Gassho, Jishin, _/st\_








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[Troy]

The Sun Will Shine


The sun will shine tomorrow
The rain will somehow end
This is not only a promise
It’s just the way it is


Bad times don’t last forever
The tough times they never stay
The heartache and the let down
Will soon go away


In times of deep sadness
The pain is all too real
And it’s hard to believe
That with time the hurt will heal


The dark clouds that hang above
Will eventually move on
And the storms that dance around
Will soon be gone


Stay strong and keep in mind
That again, the sun will shine

-Unknown

Inspirational, Thank you Bobby.


..sat2day•

[Myosha]

And the end of one's exploring will be
to arrive where we started.
And know the place
for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

[Ongen]

A fence of gnarled wood
Inside nor outside is kept
It's just an old fence


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[Guest]

Face a direction
Doesn't matter which way traveled
Closer to destination.
Only Journey.

[Myosha]

In a moonlit night on a spring day,
The croak of a frog
Pierces through the whole cosmos and turns it into
a single family!

Chang Chiu-ch'en