Awesome nightfall

Why do I, who broke
so completely with this world,
find in my body
still the pulsing of a heart
once dyed in blossoms' hues?

Saigyo Hoshi


This wikipedia page is a terrific guide to Japanese poetry.

That's where she'll be..

I had a dream where I went to your room,
and I cut off my hand to let go of the pain.

Jim Hsieh's prints are amazing

Buy them here: Thumbtack Press

Shunryu Suzuki said that

Wherever you are,
you are one with the clouds
and one with the sun
and the stars you see.
You are one with everything.
That is more true than I can say,
and more true than you can hear.

No-mind

Being present in every moment means to forget oneself, forget your practice, forget the moment, forget everything, to be dissolved into the moment and become one with it, transcending every notion of subject and object existing independently of eachother. This moment takes place before your mind is able to identify it, and before it can be measured and classified. If it exists in our thoughts, it has already left us.