No effort

Now the bull may saunter through the hill forests,

Or else walk the much travelled roads, covered in dust.

Never will he touch fodder from another man's meadow.

Coming or going requires no effort- the bull quietly carries the man.

(From ''Gentling the Bull - Comments taken from talks by the Venerable Myokyo-ni.''

PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ZEN CENTRE, LONDON, 1988)