Poem

  • Dogen

    For a long while I’ve abandoned human realms, beyond attachments, Writing with brush and inkstone already…

  • Jane Hirshfield 

    Let them not say: we did not see it. We saw. Let them not say: we…

  • Nagarjuna

    The Buddha’s teaching of the Dharma Is based on two truths: A truth of worldly convention…

  • Ryūmon Gutierrez-Baldoquin

    There is containment and there is flow. Without flow, containment is rigidity. Without containment, flow is…

  • Dogen

    For so long here without worldly attachments, I have renounced literature and writing; I may be…

  • T’ung-li

    Search the three periods The mind isn’t there If the mind isn’t there False conditions aren’t…

  • Fu Hsi

    From a single thought arise Deeds wrought by delusion, Sixty-two mistaken views Nine hundred crazy ins…

  • Dogen

    Study the way as if boring wood to make fire. Seeing the smoke you should not…

  • Li Po

    The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together,…

  • Longya

    Study the way like boring wood to make fire. When smoke arises do not stop. Just…