You who arrived complete in the study of not knowing, You who are the flowers bursting forth, revealing your true nature, You who are the voice of the entire suffering world, In the silences between the bells, In the graceful … Continue reading
Here is the link to a talk that I recently gave at San Francisco Zen Center’s City Center:
http://www.sfzc.org/zc/display.asp?catid=1,10&pageid=3327
My previous talks at City Center are posted here:
http://www.sfzc.org/zc/display.asp?catid=1,10&pageid=440
Next up, talks with the Redwood City Zen group on July 22nd, and with the Gay Men’s Buddhist Sangha on August 5th.
As the darkness began to fall,
Emboldened by the hunter’s call,
I slipped into the cool of night,
Gratefully released from exterior walls,
Though not interior ones.
Walking to the water’s edge,
The stars above a great assemblage,
I found the moon a’painting,
It’s brilliance on the distant window ledge,
Or was it only imagined?
A trail of glitter, as though left behind,
The lovely way the water shined,
I was enthralled, yet somber, still,
Could this very moon be only mind?
Surely there were angels.
Surely they sprinkled their dust.
Surely there were fairies among the forest’s trees,
be there must!
But recognizing, in the end,
That the childish ways must always bend,
To the ever flowing dance of water light,
Which fantasies cannot upend.
And so, at last, I laid my head
On the sweet, sweet dew of grass’s bed,
Allowing, allowing the ancient way,
To which I had been gratefully led.
- KMC c. 2012
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