your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
Life is a dream,
the years pass by like flowing waters.
Glamour and glory are transient as autumn smoke;
what tragedy — for with the sun set deeply in the
west, still there are those lost among
paths of disillusionment.
Our heart
should be clear as ice.
Forget all the worldly nonsense.
Sit calmly, breathe quietly, heart bright
and spotless as an empty mirror.
This is the path to
the buddha’s
table.
In order to
be a proper teacher to
oneself, one must be part midwife,
part executioner: sometimes rebirthing oneself,
sometimes annihilating and leaving useless bits by the
wayside, until the self soars free and clear of
attachment, obstruction, and delusion
and joins all buddhas past,
present, and
future.
Then one
can stop fracturing
reality with names and ideas
of self, other, buddha,
enlightenment,
and so on.
There,
beyond definitions
and beyond mind, reality
flows like pure
water.
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The Higher Power
looks not only at our actions but
into our hearts to gauge our worthiness.
Through genuine inner modesty, acceptance,
and innocence you correct your own
errors and set an example
for others.
fifth changing line
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 63, Chi Chi / After Completion
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Break open a single
particle and all the sutras grow clear:
the great merit-wheel of the dharma turns as a whole.
The womb of a donkey gives birth to the noble horse.
Each time you look, you’ll see it new.
For zazen, a quiet room is suitable.
Eat and drink moderately. Cast aside all involvements
and cease all affairs. Do not think good or bad. Do not administer
pros and cons. Cease all the movements of the conscious mind,
the gauging of all thoughts and views. Have no designs on
becoming a buddha. Zazen has nothing whatever
to do with sitting or lying down.
Think of not thinking.
How do you think of not-thinking? Without thinking.
This in itself is the essential art of zazen. The zazen I speak of is not
learning meditation. It is simply the dharma-gate of repose and
bliss, the cultivation-authentication of totally culminated
enlightenment. It is the presence of
things as they are.
