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Make no effort to block the thoughts
Don't stop the river
Let the waters flow
Watch it all go by
As the sun rises down the garden
A pheasant climbs
The pile of wood
Just sits, with the morning
[10 October 2009]
After the effort
Everything put down
Back in its place
Just doing
What needs to be done
The morning so still
The sky to the west tinged with pink
The world beginning to awaken
[09 October 2009]
Going on, going on
His Dharma carried so many
Going on together
Leaving the raft behind
He has gone beyond
Bodhi Svaha!
[10 October 2009]
* Refers to chanting the Prajñāpāramitā Mantra in memorial of Daido Roshi.
What about this morning?
What about today?
The mind just simply won't settle!
It cannot find the way!
The money plant looks melancholy.
The sky above is grey.
[05 October 2009]
Awake
With the morning star
Out in the cold
Clear morning
Exercising this body
Sharpening this mind
A rooster calls the day break
The dark sky still full of stars
[24 September 2009]
The owl's eerie hoot
Has no location
In the dark of the early morning
The rooster's rousing crow
Comes and goes
Untouched by the cold air
The cow's sonorous groan
Reverberates
Shakes the morning, then subsides
Thus come, thus gone
[19 September 2009]
The candles burn bright
But the morning sun
Is weak and pale
The mist clings on
Soaking the garden
Obscuring the view
The neighbours pigeons
Appear from the mist
Disappear into the mist
Leaving no trace
[13 September 2009]
Grey clouds part
A bright crescent moon
Revealed, luminous
The clouds return
Black crows scatter
And wheel across the sky
[14 September 2009]
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