The wide pond expands as a mirror, The heavenly light and cloud shadows play upon it. How does such clarity occur? It is because it contains the living stream from the Fountain. –Chu Hsi (Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry by Chuan-Yuan Chang, p.209) The Tao can be symbolized as […]
No-Path is the Path
On Non-Dependence of Mind Coming, going, the waterbirds don’t follow a trace, don’t follow a path. –Dogen (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, p.50) No-Trace “Dogen Kigen (1200-1253) [was a] Japanese Zen Master, philosopher, poet, painter [and the] founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan . . . […]
The Spirit’s Hands
They can be a great help—words. They can become the spirit’s hands and lift and caress you. –Meister Eckhart (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p.110) “Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) is one of history’s great mystics . . . . He was a Catholic monk and […]
Dragon’s Breath
Singing Image of Fire A hand moves, and the fire’s whirling takes different shapes: All things change when we do. The first word, “Ah,” blossoms into all others. Each of them is true. –Kukai (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, 36) Kukai (774-835) [was] . . . the founder […]
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