How To Be A Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit downSit down.Be quiet. Breathe with unconditional breath the unconditional airShun electric wire.Communicate slowly.Live a three-dimensional life.Stay away from screens. Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in.There are no unsacred places;There are only sacred places and desecrated places. Accept what comes from silence.Make the best you can […]
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you.Let this darkness be a bell towerand you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength.Move back and forth into the change.What is it like, such intensity of pain?If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. […]
Silently A Flower Blooms
Silently a flower blooms,In silence it falls away;Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,the whole of the flower, the whole ofthe world is blooming.This is the talk of the flower, the truthof the blossom:The glory of eternal life is fully shining here. — Zenkei Shibayama