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"Wrapped, surrounded by ten thousand mountains,
Cut off, no place to go....
Until you're here, there's no way to get here.
Once you're here, there's no way to go."
- Yuan Mei
From the book: "The Poetry of Zen," published by
Shambhala.
posted to Daily Dharma by Dainen Kelley
Water Lily
My
whole life is mine, but whoever says so
will
deprive me, for it is infinite.
The
ripple of water, the shade of the sky
are
mine; it is still the same, my life.
No
desire opens me: I am full,
I
never close myself with refusal -
in
the rhythm of my daily soul
I
do not want - I am moved;
By
being moved I lay down my vast visions,
making
the dreams of night real:
into
my body at the bottom of the water
I
attract the beyonds of mirrors...
Rainer
Maria Rilke
posted
by Peter Shefler to Facebook
http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/Tanum.html
photos by Alan Larus
Just as a doorman beckons to the passer-by
Inviting him to view the naked ladies,
As a showroom displays the latest models
And a piece of cheese leads the mouse to his certain
death
So this glittering bait leads us to a momentary
contentment.
Denial of the manifest existence is a further
blasphemy
As blasphemous as a shotgun marriage to it.
The intricacy of thought patterns
Taken as real
Are ever more subtle.
Hook, line and sinker come to mind.
Where does the poor me fit into all this?
Where can the ‘I’ take a rest?
Whose theory or practice will provide liberation
from attachment?
A small voice whispers the timeless message
“There is no way out,
There is no ‘I’”
When even the dogs have given up sniffing around
A feast is laid.
Tim Goulding
http://therudrachronicles.blogspot.com/2010/08/showroom.html
THE PROPHET
You are the prophet
You are the scriptures,
The wisdom and the way.
You are the Buddha, the teachings,
The source from which
Abundant Kindness springs.
You are the carefree life.
You are a nobody, a nothing,
With nowhere to go
Nothing to know.
Your greatest asset your helplessness
Your jewel a supreme carelessness.
Swept here and there
By the tides of the world
Blown hither and thither
By chaos and chance
You find no rest
Yet you are rest itself.
In this understanding
A mighty heart is set free
All things fit
Into this order of abandon.
Tim Goulding
http://therudrachronicles.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-sickness-and-in-health.html