Category Archives: Poetry

208 – Ego and Self

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

From New Buddhist Poetry by T J Dayhuff, posted on Facebook: Ancients thought a self constrained by ego to be dwelling in ignorance, shackled to an identity based on distinction, rather than the manifold connections to the Large. Enlightenment was … Continue reading →

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158 – Ryokan and Duality

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

Where beauty is, then there is ugliness; where right is, also there is wrong. Knowledge and ignorance are interdependent; delusion and enlightenment condition each other. Since olden times it has been so. How could it be otherwise now? Wanting to … Continue reading →

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157 – Dogen and Dhamma

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma. ~Dogen I have long admired the poetry of this 13th … Continue reading →

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155 – Birth

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

Sitting with the sweet smell Of lilacs wafting in the window Unguarded sense door …clinging follows And the whole mass of dukkha is born.

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121 – Transcience (anicca)

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

Nay, do not grieve tho’ life be full of sadness, Dawn will not veil her splendor for your grief, Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf. Nay, do not pine, tho’ life be dark … Continue reading →

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