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Pure and fresh are the flowers with dew
Clear and bright is the singing of the birds;
Clouds are calm, waters are blue.
Who has written the True Word of no letters?
Lofty are the mountains, green are the trees,
Deep are the valleys, lucid are the streams;
The wind is soft, the moon is serene.
Calmly I read the True Word of no letters.
- Zenkei -
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Rain clears from the distant peaks
Dew glistens frostily.
Moonlight glazes the front of
My ivied hut among the pines.
How can I tell you how I am,
Right now?
A swollen brook gushes in the valley
Darkened by clouds.
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Daily Zen - True Word of no letters
Pure and fresh are the flowers with dew
Clear and bright is the singing of the birds;
Clouds are calm, waters are blue.
Who has written the True Word of no letters?
Lofty are the mountains, green are the trees,
Deep are the valleys, lucid are the streams;
The wind is soft, the moon is serene.
Calmly I read the True Word of no letters.
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2008 Journal Meme
Post the first line of your first blog for each month of 2008 and see how your year shaped up...
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2.This is the first year since my senior year of high school, when I couldn't vote, that I've been interested in any political party.
3.I woke up at 6am on Sunday to a blizzard which was quite odd since the day before was 70 degrees, but that's ( Read more... ) -
For My Ts'ki
Silently a flower blooms,
In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment,
At this place,
The whole of the flower,
The whole of the world
Is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower,
The truth of the blossom;
The glory of life is fully shining here.
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Daily Zen-Monkeys
In cold weather I always to go sleep early,
Not waiting for the sunlight to withdraw.
I never shut my cottage door,
Lest it keep the mountain monkeys out.
Falling leaves strike the window;
At my pillow it seems like raindrops.
Rising, I gaze at the western peaks;
The moon has set, the stars are twinkling.
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Hair Hair Everywhere
The title pretty much says it all. I have too much damn animal hair in my house. I love my animals, and I would never give them up, but I wish the animal hair covering everything in my house including food, would disappear! 1, 2, 3, GO!!!! -
Daily Zen
Now whether withdrawn on a mountain,
or retired in a city, the essential
thing is the long maturation.
For this, it is good to keep
the examples of the old masters in mind,
or we will be pulled back into
the dust and delusion of the world.
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Daily Zen
The little retreat is to hide
Among wooded hills;
The great retreat is to vanish
In the capital.
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