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Tag Archives: emptiness
Not So Empty
Emptiness is form; nothing has nothing in it, like air in a jar. Saying the jar owns that air is a foolish way to think. Form is emptiness; nothing has something to it that is not alone. Thinking one jar’s … Continue reading
Shikantaza
Who is just sitting? It is not me, or is it, here on the cushion. Who is asking the question? Nobody really knows that. 13 JUN 2024 Share This:
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Tagged emptiness, meditation, poetic forms, self, tanka, waka, zazen
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The Simple Life: a bucolic
The simple life, that free from care and vain illusion we once led, in whose embrace our flourishing and true existence found their height, and with such grace evolved from beasts, abandoned filth and savage ways, escaped the snares of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, bucolic, daily poems, emptiness, illusion, nostalgia, pastoral elegy, poetic forms
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Treating the Symptoms, Not the Cause
Something to think about in the context of today’s America and unrest around the world (emphases mine): Hitler was able to enslave his own people because he seemed to give them something that even the traditional religions could no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Statements
Tagged activism, degradation, Der Fuehrer, emptiness, fascism, justification, Konrad Heiden
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Words Burst the Thirteen Open
“I have nothing to say and I am saying it; that is poetry.” — Thirteen Words, John Cage What it is or was mulled over like cheap wine we drank although we didn’t know it and so we called our … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged commitment, emptiness, John Cage, longing, poetry, regrets, relationships, Thirteen Words
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The Seeker’s Lament
For forty years I’ve sought some kind of truth and come up empty-handed, more or less. What dreams I held like treasures in my youth have lost their gleam; my hands, their tenderness. The journey has not gone as I … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, emptiness, enlightenment, failure, journeys, seeking, struggles
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