A monk’s come knocking On my brushwood gate, Wanting to discuss weighty matters Of great Zen import: Excuse this mountain priest, Too lazy to open his mouth But warblers are singing All…
Tag Archives: Zen poetry
Impossible
Zen Flash. 🙂
Meditation is important because it brings people back to this very moment. And it’s usually the last place anyone wants to be, yet we cannot escape it. That is why many suffer, they wish for a different moment, a different Now, and it’s impossible.
~ Charlie Smith
Visitors via Zen Flash
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love, and then we return home.” ~ Aboriginal Australian…
Source: Visitors
3 Day Quote Challenge. Day 3 – Silent
Zen and Meditation. Ancient Poetry
The Third Zen Patriarch, Janzhi Sengcan, wrote in his poem Xinxin Ming:
“The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know. To return to the root is to find the meaning, but to pursue appearances is to miss their source. At the moment of inner enlightenment there is a going beyond appearances and emptiness.”
These words were written almost 1,500 years ago in China.
Mystic Life. Yin and Yang
My life has been filled with uplifting and terrifying wonders, I try to keep balance
It is this balance that creates the beauty as one cannot exist without the other.
-Nina
Nothing To Do — Great Middle Way
Renunciation has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somehow we get all scared because we think that we have to give up some goodies, something valuable, some important things. But there is nothing that is important; there is nothing that is solidly existing. All that you give up is actually a […]
How Now Happen— Nothing Do This — Holographic Floor— Loki’s Knoll
What happened? I did nothing. What happened? I noticed what I was doing. Then what happened? More than I can tell… A moment It was Now It is gone Only so it can return As Now •
via How Now Happen— Nothing Do This — Holographic Floor— Loki’s Knoll
Nina Yin / GoodnightNina reads her Buddhist love poetry.
Nowhere — Haiku out of africa
narrow winding path – where will this thought lead me to? – nowhere is a place © Lize Bard @ https://wandererhaiku.wordpress.com/
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