DŌGEN ZENJI

DŌGEN ZENJI

A living haiku
The satori of my life
Don’t mind if I do

OBSERVATION

Observe without reaction.

A MONKISH RIDDLE

A MONKISH RIDDLE

Like an old chestnut*
The tree in the forest falls
Silent? Who’s to say?

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* “An old chestnut (mainly British). If you describe something that is said or written as an old chestnut or a hoary old chestnut, you mean that it has been repeated so often that it is no longer interesting.” (Free Dictionary; Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012.)

NOW AND THEN (TAO AND ZEN)

NOW AND THEN (TAO AND ZEN)

Time passes us by
Tao and Zen we remember
Then forget again

MU II

MU II

It’s time to give up
But who is it that gives up?
Okay I give up

MU

MU

Without attachments
Who would remain to remain
Without attachments

RICE AND BARLEY

RICE AND BARLEY

Two a misapprehension
There is only ever one
And yet are also two
No apprehension too

Like rice and barley
Found mixed up together
Letting go in the moment
Holding without grasping

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This is based on an old Zen story, but sadly even though I recall the story and its moral I cannot relocate it. Anyone?

THE ZEN OF HAIKU

I wrote, now you read
Feel the moment and we are
One sizeless being