Shoju sat all night in the graveyard
among wolves who sniffed his Adam’s apple.
First light moving in the air
he arose, peed, and ate breakfast.
comfortable wherever you happen to be
The ways of the world
are uncertain, and a single thought of
seeking to have everything leads to myriad
complications. If you make yourself
comfortable wherever you
happen to be, you can
go anywhere.
be absorbed in the now
The
present moment
is the source of everything.
As long as you have resentments
about the past or ideas about
the future, you cannot
genuinely be in
the present.
You owe it
to your future self,
and to the rest of us, to be
completely absorbed here and
now. Make all notions of past
and future a cool pile
of ashes in the
corner.
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this
Zen is not
some kind of excitement,
but concentration on our usual
everyday routine.