Beginner Mind

Published at: 05:08 am - Friday August 24 2001

so the most difficult thing
is always to keep
your beginner’s mind….

If you start to practice zazen,
you will begin to appreciate
your beginner’s mind.

It is the secret

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Where can dust fall?

Published at: 04:08 pm - Friday August 17 2001

Neither is there Bodhi-tree,
Nor yet a mirror bright;
Since in reality all is void,
Whereon can the dust fall?

- Hui Neng (638-713)

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The Search for the Bull

Published at: 04:08 pm - Friday August 10 2001

In the pasture of the world,
I endlessly push aside the tall
Grasses in search of the bull.
Following unnamed rivers,
Lost upon the interpenetrating
Paths of distant mountains,
My strength failing
And my vitality exhausted,
I cannot find the bull.
I only hear locusts chirring
Through the forest at night.

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Staff and Sandals

Published at: 05:08 pm - Friday August 03 2001

Now cold, now warm;
Staff and sandals
Sometimes home,
Sometimes out.

- Chugan Engetsu

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Gibbon

Published at: 04:08 pm - Thursday August 02 2001

A lone gibbon howls on the ridge.
What else do I cherish?

- Cold Mountain

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Rivers at last.

Published at: 04:08 pm - Thursday August 02 2001
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Travel

Published at: 05:08 pm - Wednesday August 01 2001

Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive.

– Robert M. Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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