Showing posts with label Zen poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zen poems. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Even though I'm in Kyoto



Even though I'm in Kyoto,
when the kookoo cries,
I long for Kyoto.
- Issa


How reluctantly
the bee emerges from deep
within the peony
- Basho


Look directly!
What is this?
Look in this manner
And you won't be fooled!
- Bassui

Good and evil have no self nature;
Holy and unholy are empty names;
In front of the door is the land of stillness and quiet;
Spring comes, grass grows by itself.
- Master Seung Sahn