BUDDHIST ASYMMETRY

The techno-monks in mega-byte spirals,

enjoying as if it was the first, 

their random arrangement.

Transcending the self

KOAN #47.  THREE GATES OF TOSOTSU

       Tosotsu built three barriers and made the monks pass through them. The first barrier is studying Zen. In studying Zen the aim is to see one's own true nature. Now where is your true nature?

       Secondly, when one realizes his own true nature he will be free from birth and death. Now when you shut the light from your eyes and become a corpse, how can you free yourself ?

        Thirdly, if you free yourself from birth and death, you should know where you are. Now the body separates into the four elements. Where are you?

Mumon's comment: Whoever can pass these three barriers will be a master wherever he stands. Whatever happens about him he will turn into Zen. Otherwise he will be living on poor food and not even enough to satisfy himself.

                            

                            An instant realization sees endless time.

                            Endless time is as one moment.

                            When one comprehends the endless moment
                            He realizes the person who is seeing it.      

(από το βιβλίο THE GATELESS GATE by Ekai, called Mu-mon)

ΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ ΟΤΙ ΟΥΔΕΝ ΟΙΔΑ

I did not know that he has the rope tight around his waist. 

The right hand holds the whip, I knew that!

CHAOS

"I don't like to call it Satan, I call it the Shadow, the dark force. What darker forces can I think of than Hitler or Stalin? They killed people in the millions. Call it the devil if you wish but the war was a massive case of the Shadow."

Michael Hughes on "the Dark Forces"

The Bar

The young boy who went

one step forward to morality

is now the man who is crawling

on tidbits of hate.

A BIRTHDAY IN APRIL

It's raining in Los Angeles,

and in Tamil Nadu;

the rain stops at two.

A lot of flesh... Where?

'Eχω γερή ρίζα.

Σαν του μπονσάι,

που φυτρώνει,

πάνω σε μιας μικρής ξανθιάς

την ώριμη γκριμάτσα.

WE CHEAT A LITTLE

Να υψωθώ πάνω απ' τον κόσμο,

να τον φτύνω 

με αυτόν τον ήχο, που κάνει

η disco όταν ξεφουσκώνει.

ΤΙ ΖΩΝΤΑΝΟ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΥΤΟ;

ΟΝΕΙΡΟ 1

Είναι ένας κόκκορας-λαγός, λευκός. Πρρ, πρρ πάει και γρήγορα.

Αυτό, γιατί  παρακολουθεί ένα βρεγμενό πόδι πάνω σε κιτς πλακάκια.

DREAM 2

A very young girl is accompanied by her mother. They walk hand in hand.

The girl who goes first, is reading a newspaper. The Mom is "fortyish" and she follows, cocky like her daughter, certain of the girl's success.