Categories
Random Posts
- Let Words EscapeRescind your tortured sentences; let words escape like AWOL soldiers past the fence, like sullen rocks that would grow wings like birds and fly out …
- My life as a Moody Blues song …Several entries ago, I mentioned a book on learning to think like Leonardo da Vinci. Well, I am slowly working my way through the exercises …
- The Harlem RenaissanceYou could hear it through the night at Minton’s, winding around some old tune of the man’s, pushing the envelope, sound just hinting at more …
- Let Words Escape
Recent Comments
- Irene on Some ancient affirmations
- Rekha on No More Sad Weepings of Regret
- Novena on Wake Up: sonetto rispetto
- John on On the Veranda: serenade
Subscribe
Join 298 other subscribersMeta
Tag Archives: emptiness
The Lineage of Fog
Grasping our nothing we try sharing everything; we are all alone. Wholeness disguises itself in the mirror’s reflection. We hold our nothing like a vast, sacred treasure; our fingers give out. Beyond the edge of owning, true experience begins. 22 … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged connection, daily poems, emptiness, haiku, Japanese verse forms, poetic forms, waka
Leave a comment
When You Want
When you want to learn don’t start with what you don’t know; examine yourself. Remember, your ignorance begins at the beginning. When you want to grow don’t start seeking the sunshine. Connect to the ground. Until your roots are dirty, … Continue reading
So Many Words
So many words for such a thing so smallit barely leaves a ripple at the shore,and all its no-so-grand comings and goingsare little noticed after, or before. So brief an episode is this thing life:a moment’s breath in an eternal … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged breath, emptiness, iambic pentameter, impermanence, life, poetic forms, sonnet
Leave a comment
Without a Trace
Without gratitude to season today’s living, the soup of being has little or no flavor. Who would eat such a bland dish? Without noticing the beauty of this moment, a colorless world clothes our life in only gray. Who would … Continue reading
The Heart Sutra
There is no practice, way, or path,No future place, no lingering past,Nothing is real, and nothing dream;Everything that is, just seems,and is connected but still freeto think with selfish vanityThat by itself it came to be. What folly, to imagine … Continue reading
Zazen
Breathing in and outIsn’t just for the cushion;It’s the entire thing.If you practice just sitting,This moment is everywhere. Try to stop breathing, And your attention can’t last;You are mind and body.Pretending at something elseRequires a lot of thinking. Everything you … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged breath, emptiness, haiku, meditation, poetic forms, waka, zazen, Zen
Leave a comment
Prajnaparamita
With what great faculty would you describea something that is nothing in itself – an emptiness that does not rise or fall,but is and isn’t, both, at the same time, and lights, but doesn’t land, adrift in time(which is not … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged emptiness, heart sutra, knowledge, poetic forms, sonnet, wisdom, Zen
Leave a comment