Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

Poem

  • Jane Hirshfield

    You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It’s like the…

  • Huineng

     When alive, one keeps sitting without lying down:  When dead, one lies down without sitting up.…

  • William Stafford

    There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People…

  • Keizan Jokin

    The wind traverses the vast sky, clouds emerge from the mountains; Feelings of enlightenment and things…

  • Tachibani Akemi

    What a delight it is When on the bamboo matting In my grass-thatched hut, All on…

  • Joanne Kyger

    Your heart is fine feeling the widest possible empathy for the day and its inhabitants Thanks…

  • Yuanwu

    Birth is the emergence of undivided activity. Death is the emergence of undivided activity. Filling up…

  • Mumon

    Not falling, not evading—two faces of the same die.Not evading, not falling—a thousand mistakes, ten thousand…

  • Li Po

    The birds have vanished from the sky.   Now the last clouds drain away.     …

  • Nagarjuna

    This body manifests a full moon expressing the bodies of all buddhas, teaching that it has…