Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

Poem

  • Mumon

    The blue sky, the bright day. It is most detestable to hunt around; If, furthermore, you…

  • Confucius

    The Way is at hand, but people are looking for it afar; People are using it…

  • Mumon

    Speaking too much degrades virtue, No words are truly effective; Even though the great ocean should…

  • Izumi Shikibu

    Sleeplessly I watch over the spring night – but no amount of guarding is enough to…

  • Falling into Preferences

    Regarded from one side, an entire range; From another, a single peak. Far, near, high, low,…

  • Hongzhi

    The true form is magnificently illuminated with gleaming fire. The teaching’s voice is total silence amid…

  • Kujo Takeko

    I do not consider myself worth counting, but sometimes even for me heaven and earth are…

  • Anryu Suharu

    When, with breaking heart, I realize this world is only a dream, the oak tree looks…

  • Layman Pang

    Mind is Thus and objects are also Thus: There is no true and also no false.…

  • Izumi Shikibu

    Although I try to hold the single thought of Buddha’s teaching in my heart, I cannot…