From the pine tree
learn of the pine tree
and from the bamboo
learn of the bamboo
Basho
One moon shows in every pool
in every pool the one moon
Zen
Forest Saying
The world is like a mirror you see?
smile and your friends smile back
Japanese
Zen saying
If you cannot find the truth right where you are
where else do you expect to find it?
Dogen
Zenji
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe
that the mind is like a little man within
Ludwig
Wittgenstein
The mind of the past is ungraspable
the mind of the future is ungraspable
the mind of the present is ungraspable
Diamond
Sutra
The obstacle is the path
Zen
proverb
Even to speak the word Buddha
is dragging it in the mud soaking wet
Blue
Cliff Record
Zen is not some kind of excitement but
concentration on our usual everyday routine
Shunryu
Suzuki
Student says
I am very discouraged
what should I do?
Master says
encourage others
Zen
proverb
Baseball player says
hey Yogi I keep swinging over the ball
what should I do?
Yogi says
swing lower
Yogi
Berra proverb
The body is the tree of enlightenment
the mind like a clear mirror stand
time and gain wipe it diligently
don't let it gather dust
Shenxiu
Enlightenment is basically not a tree
and the clear mirror is not a stand
fundamentally there is not a single thing
where can dust collect
Huineng
Old pond
a frog leaps in
kerplunk
Basho
The website you seek
cannot be located now
endless others exist
Internet
Zen Haiku
One two three four five
six seven eight nine ten e-
leven twelve thirteen
Eigenhaiku
The first line has five
the second line has seven
the last line has five
Eigenhaiku
Form does not differ from emptiness
emptiness does not differ from form
form itself is emptiness
emptiness itself is form
so too are feeling
cognition
formation and consciousness
Heart
Sutra
All conditioned things are impermanent
be a lamp unto yourself
Buddha's
last words
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
TS
Eliot
A flower falls
even though we love it
and a weed grows
even though we do not love it
Dogen
Zenji
It is the thoughtlife that pollutes
Jesus
We do not learn by experience
but by our capacity for experience
Buddha
The fundamental delusion of humanity is
to suppose that I am here and you are out there
Yasutani
Roshi