Yes,
there is, and
it gives
You were
Saying
Saturday, March 23, 2024
the plow downhill is insightful
Staying in as life saps
Each day closer to silence
It doesn’t matter if nothing follows
Let it snow let it go let it flow
no place, no time, (right?) here
Two cats take turns
At open window
Snow falls
Yale beats Auburn
March madness
Then CastAway
We find ourselves
Lost with nothing
Only flotsam and
Jetsam drifting to
shore-edge of
One’s life enroute
Elsewhere
Always
Else (where?)
Sacred ceremony
Jettisoning each
Remaining second
Friday, March 22, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
winter coat buttoned up
Chapel/zendo
after walk
Silent sitting
Breathe in out
Comes dusk
the bells, the gong
bowing
turning, leaving
loony tunes comics
it's a phase
these republicans
go through
forgetting
self decency
they embrace
an odd and
scurrilous
disturbed man
mimicking
prancing
mugging
verging
comedically
to be president
time will come
some will
forgive him
until then
tie him up
lock in closet
with clarabell
honking horn
big red nose
until fever
breaks in
unwell followers
there's yet life
in the heart of
a weary country
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
com... pen... di... um
hu
man
be
ing
ak
ash
ic
re
cord
what
can
we
learn
from
ev
ery
thing
ever
col
lect
ed
in
wh
ole
uni
vers
al
pre
sence
our
non
sense
put
in
con
text
no llores por la tierra, estás aquí
What did you say
Waaa, waaa
Oh, sweet baby, it’s ok
Waaa, waaa
Come here, little spring,
it’s chilly this morning
you have just arrived
and we will swaddle you
within our imagination
where seasons turn with
cosmos in dark emptiness
I’ll rekindle fire in stove
brew coffee sit by yew view
where finch, junco, chickadee
red and grey squirrel, chipmunk
circle sunflower seeds
under sign from Shenandoah
river shore laurel lodge when
Trappist silence heard everything
stepping silence back into earth
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
even a moment of time
I take this time to prepare for death.
I take this time to move through life.
Same? Or different?
The days and months go by like lightning: we should value the time.
We pass from life to death in the time it takes to breathe in and breathe out: it’s hard to guarantee even a morning and an evening.
Whether walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, do not waste even a moment of time. Become ever braver and bolder.
Be like our original teacher Shakyamuni, who kept on progressing energetically.
—T’aego (1301-1382)
Energy
Being
The word
oggi vivo, oggi muoio
each day
waking then
sleeping
is gift
one day
no waking no
sleeping
also gift
day by day
I don't want
to live don't
want to die
someday
each will
discover what
this means
oggi vivo, (today
I live)
oggi muoio (today
I die)
equi nox sequi hocs
Tonight at
11:06pm
Spring will
Arrive
Until then
Winter wanders
Dooryard, tired
and muddy
Monday, March 18, 2024
Sunday, March 17, 2024
creatura essere
once
they say
there was
nothing
out from
which suddenly
came
something
whence and
hence
we
arrive
out of
matter's
watery
religio
(conscientiousness)
this appearance
is mythos some
call Christos*
useful
this creatura
essere
promulgating 'this'
which is
what and who
we are
soul surrounding space
... ... ...
*The spelling of the Greek name Χρήστος suggests a derivation from the word χρηστός, which in earlier forms of the language principally meant "useful",[6][7] and in modern Greek means "ethical, righteous, good, just, upright, virtuous". (wikipedia)
keep this koan constantly
I don't want anything else.
Just this.
If you wish to bring the two matters of birth and death to conclusion and pass directly beyond the Triple-world, you must penetrate the koan “This very mind is Buddha.”
Tell me: What is its principle? How is it that this very mind is Buddha? And “this very mind” just what is it like?
Investigate it coming. Investigate it going. Investigate it thoroughly and exhaustively. All you have to do is keep this koan constantly in your thoughts.
Daito (1282-1334) dz
Nothing else.
Just this.
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