only one koan matters you –Ikkyu Ikkyu (1394-1481) was a Japanese Zen master and wandering poet. “. . .[Ikkyu] developed street Zen, out of the monastery and into the living reality of laypeople. . . . To really wake up you have to step out of the cloistered sacred and be in the midst of […]
Melted Snowflake
each of us like the water of a melted snowflake a tiny lake existing for a moment –Terry Chitwood Impermanence Meditating on impermanence, my ideas dissolve in the sunlight of a new dawn. My thoughts like shadows scatter before the approaching light. A temple bell rings inside my heart. The song of the skylark resounds […]
I am the Wind
I am the wind that moves my pen across the page I am the wind that blows letters into words I am the wind that falls like a waterfall off my mountain mind Bringing the scent of lilacs to the valley below –Terry Chitwood A Living Connection This poem is an expression of Celtic thought […]
Silence as Shadow
“In Catholic mysticism there is a path known as the via negativa—the practice of emptying the self of its own will, desires, and even knowledge, in order that the soul may be filled by God. Poetry offers a similar path, rich with nondoing. It is found first in the relationship between speech and its steady […]
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