Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘The becoming of clouds and the becoming of rain is the speaking and doing of the plum blossom. Floating clouds and falling rain are the plum blossom’s thousands of twists and turns and myriad layers of color, its thousands of merits and myriad virtues. “The past-and-present being naturally there” is the plum blossom; the plum blossom is called “the past-and-present.’ (Shobogenzo Baike)