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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Beautiful Zen poem
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I was reading through a book of zen poems and came across this gem.  Enjoy!

Be soft in your practice.  Think of the method as a fine silvery
stream, not a raging waterfull.  Follow the stream, have faith
in its course.  It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling
there.  It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices.  Just
follow it.  Never let it out of your sight.  It will take you.

Sheng-yen 1931-



While I'm at it, here's another one:



In Praise of zazen

Sentient beings are in essence Buddhas.
It is like water and ice.
There is no ice without water,
There are no Buddhas outside sentient beings.

What a shame, sentient beings seek afar,
not knowing what is at hand.
It is like wailing from thirst
in the midst of water,
or meandering lost among the poor,
although born a rich man's child.

The cause of rebirth in the six realms
is the darkness of our delusion.
Treading dark path after dark path
when can we escape birth and death?

Zen meditation goes beyond all praise.
Giving, keeping precepts, and the other perfections,
chanting Buddha's name, repentance, training and
many other kinds of whlesome deeds
all find there source in zazen.

When you sit even once,
the merit obliterates countless wrongdoings.
How can there be evil realms?
The Pure Land is not far.

If by good fortune you have the occasion
to hear this teaching,
admire it and rejoice in it.

You will attain boundless happiness--
how much more if you dedicate yourself
and realize your own nature directly.

This own-nature is no nature.
You are already apart from useless discussions.
The gate opens where cause and effect are inseparable,
the road of not-two, not-three goes straight ahead.

Make the form formless form,
going and returning, not anywhere else.
Make the thought thoughtless thought,
singing and dancing, the Dharma voice.

How vast the sky if unobstructed concentration!
How brilliant the moon of fourfold wisdom!

At this very moment, what can be sought?
Nirvana is immediate.
This place is the lotus land.
This body is the Buddha body.

Hakuin 1685-1769

:heart: Peace :heart:

:hippie:

Edited by Quoiyaien (10/09/06 11:54 AM)

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Re: Beautiful Zen poem [Re: Quoiyaien]
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Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery
stream, not a raging waterfull. Follow the stream, have faith
in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling
there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.



I like it. :thumbup:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Beautiful Zen poem [Re: Icelander]
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very appreciative!


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Re: Beautiful Zen poem [Re: redgreenvines]
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I really enjoy this stuff. Please post more if you got'em.

I like Zen because they have less emphasis on the mystical such as reincarnation and enlightment.

This and for their main focus being on meditation (and directly experiencing the now) makes it my choice on .. who I think makes the most sense out of all the religions.



Edited by djtetsu (10/09/06 02:58 AM)

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Re: Beautiful Zen poem [Re: djtetsu]
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Heres 2 more:

Green mountain's father white clouds:
white clouds are the children of mountains.
White clouds hang around all day.
Mostly the mountain doesn't mind.

-T'ung-shan Liang-chieh 807-869

Clouds appear free of care
and carefree drift away.
But the carefree mind cant be "found"--
to find it, first stop looking around.

-Wang An-shih 1021-1086

:hippie:

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Re: Beautiful Zen poem [Re: Quoiyaien]
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Very nice. I think I like this Zen thing.


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"Who are you who live in all these many forms? You're death that captures all. You too are the source of all that's gonna be born. You're glory, mercy, peace, truth. You give calm a spirit, understanding, courage, the contented heart."

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Re: Beautiful Zen poem [Re: Quoiyaien]
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Zen teachings are like a poetic expression of our nature, letters from emptiness.

Gassho!! :japsmile:


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Re: Beautiful Zen poem [Re: Sinbad]
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Some Suzuki Quotes :grin:

"What is important is not the teaching, but the character and effort of the student. Even to seke for enlightenment means your mind is not big enough. You are not sincere becuase you have some purpose in your study."

"Without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself as you are is the most importatn thing."

"If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra."

"In beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in experts mind there are few"


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Re: Beautiful Zen poem [Re: Sinbad]
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between seeking enlightenment and finding error
between cloud & mountain
between is and isn't

nothing added


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Re: Beautiful Zen poem [Re: redgreenvines]
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Good morning!

For all these years, my certain Zen:
neither I nor the world exist.
The sutras neat within the box,
my cane hooked upon the wall,
I lie at peace in moonlight
or, hearing water splashing on the rock,
sit up; none can purchase pleasure such as this:
spangled across the step moss, a million coins!

-Shutaku 1308-1388



:japsmile:

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