Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

Poem

  • Ryokan

    When a painful day is met The painful day is met with welcome; At the time…

  • Making The Unwanted Wanted

    Even now, decades after, I wash my face with cold water – Not for discipline, nor…

  • Robert Aitken

    When I stroll around in the city I vow with all beings To notice how lichen…

  • Sekito Kisen

    A person doesn’t know what he’s doing, Lets it all happen naturally. All the sages in…

  • Nanao Sakaki

    Within a circle of one meter You sit, pray and sing. Within a shelter ten meters…

  • Genro

    Friends of my childhood Are all well-known now, They discuss philosophy, They write essays, criticisms. I…

  • Tozan

    Ordinary beings and the myriad buddhas do not intrude upon each other. The mountain is naturally…

  • Dogen

    Encountering whatever meets the eye, all is intimate. In sitting, lying or walking meditation, the body…

  • Kodo Sawaki

    A shower in the middle of a fight about irrigation.

  • Nyogen Senzaki

    This desert on the plateau Became a village of evacuees. The birds began to visit us…