On Deity Figures

''To keep an eye on us.''

Michael Hughes

Full is empty

Full is empty, this is true,

You are me and I am you.

M. T. HEAD

(from the book ''UNTRAIN YOUR PARROT,  

And Other No Nonsense Instructions On The Path of Zen'',

by Elizabeth Hamilton, Shambala Publications 2017)

Haiku of '87

I jumped like a frog

in time,

and became a Messiah.

Beyond the rational mind

''When I first began to study Zen, my teacher gave me a koan, a Zen question, to answer:

'How do you go further from the top of a hundred foot pole?'

You can't use your rational mind to answer the koan-or any Zen question- in a logical way.

You might meditate a long time and come back to the Zen master and say,

'The answer is to live fully.'  ''

(from ''Instructions to the cook'' by Bernie Glassman & Rick Fields)

Για την Egyoku

Η έρευνα για τον εαυτό είναι σα να καθαρίζεις ένα δάσος από τα σκουπίδια.


(Η Wendy Egyoku Nakao είναι η ''ηγουμένη'' του Zen Center του Λος Άντζελες)

TRUNGPA'S LIFE AND VISION

''Master of meditation, artist, poet, social visionary- Chogyam Trungpa was all these and more. His work was unique in its emphasis on a secular rather than religious approach to spirituality. From his first years of teaching in Britain and the United States, Trungpa began making friends with his students in a completely free style, with few Buddhist references.

Among the practices that he encouraged his students to undertake were calligraphy, flower arranging, Japanese archery, tea ceremony, dance, theater, poetry, psychotherapy, elocution and translation. The sole strictly traditionally Buddhist discipline Chogyam Trungpa insisted upon, was sitting meditation.''

(FABRICE MIDAL, ''CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, HIS LIFE AND VISION'',

2OO4 SHAMBALA PUBLICATIONS)

Σαν ένα μνημόσυνο

Σαν ένα μνημόσυνο,

όπου ένας Βραχμάνος

εναποθέτει εκατοντάδες άσπρα γαρύφαλλα

σ’ έναν τάφο στην ακτή

της Santa Barbara.