Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

Poem

  • Basho

    Now, as soon as eyes of the hawk, too, darken quail chirp

  • Mumon

    Don’t draw another’s bow, Don’t ride another’s horse, Don’t discuss another’s faults, Don’t explore another’s affairs.

  • Brooke Astor

    I am old and I have had more than my share of good and bad: I’ve…

  • Tesshu Yamaoka

    Perfect when clear Perfect when cloudy Mount Fuji’s original form Never changes.

  • Dogen

    The Way of the Ancestors coming from the West I transmit to the East. Yearning for…

  • Les Murray

    Everything except language knows the meaning of existence. Trees, planets, rivers, time know nothing else. They…

  • Basho

    This road! with no-one going – autumn evening.  

  • Wariko Kai

    Although there are rocks and tree roots, Rippling along, just rippling along, The water runs.

  • Dogen

    The wind is still in the great thousands of worlds. Birds sing and mountain peaks are…

  • Issa

    This dewdrop world – Is a dewdrop world, And yet, and yet…