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  • Taigu
    Blue Mountain White Clouds Hermitage Priest
    • Aug 2008
    • 2710

    Koku

    These few words are inspired by Shobogenzo Koku.
    They were wriiten in an early morning train to answer one of my students poem about this chapter.




    Wonderful space
    Neither inside nor outside,
    When you're not there
    Then the ten thousand things move forward
    And an edgeless iris opens
    And turns a simple plum blossom
    Opening the open
    This
    The body of a bell tinkling in the wind
    Dindin dindin dindin
    The ancient poem of Nyojo
    Expresses it so well
    Nothing that is not it
    And nothing to make, neither words nor forms
    The vast space is both matter and seal
    Presence undone of itself
    Our real body open like a mouth
    Hanging in space


    Gassho


    Taigu
    Last edited by Taigu; 12-19-2013, 12:43 AM.
  • Jishin
    Member
    • Oct 2012
    • 4818

    #2
    Beautiful. Thank you.

    Gassho, John

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    • Myozan Kodo
      Friend of Treeleaf
      • May 2010
      • 1901

      #3
      ( )

      Thank you for this wonder.
      Gassho
      Myozan

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      • MyoHo
        Member
        • Feb 2013
        • 632

        #4
        How beautiful! I had never read this chapter Koku before ( I have only Shobogenzo volume 1, sorry ) but found it on the internet after you posted this gem.

        Thank you Taigu for your teachings.

        Gassho

        E.
        Mu

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        • Myosha
          Member
          • Mar 2013
          • 2974

          #5
          Thank you.


          Gassho,
          Edward
          "Recognize suffering, remove suffering." - Shakyamuni Buddha when asked, "Uhm . . .what?"

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          • Mp

            #6
            Beautiful indeed Taigu. =)

            Gassho
            Shingen

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            • Shinzan
              Member
              • Nov 2013
              • 338

              #7
              Taigu, you know about chained poems, yes?

              Iris opening
              dindin dindin
              a bee wanders by


              Shinzan

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              • Taigu
                Blue Mountain White Clouds Hermitage Priest
                • Aug 2008
                • 2710

                #8
                yeah,
                chabadabada
                boom boom...

                gassho

                T.

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                • Mp

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Taigu
                  yeah,
                  chabadabada
                  boom boom...

                  gassho

                  T.
                  I know that one Taigu, a classic! =)

                  Gassho
                  Shingen

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                  • Kyonin
                    Treeleaf Priest / Engineer
                    • Oct 2010
                    • 6739

                    #10
                    Simply beautiful.

                    Thank you, Taigu.

                    Gassho,

                    Kyonin
                    Hondō Kyōnin
                    奔道 協忍

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                    • Daitetsu
                      Member
                      • Oct 2012
                      • 1145

                      #11
                      Beautiful indeed - thank you!


                      Gassho,

                      Timo
                      no thing needs to be added

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                      • Kokuu
                        Treeleaf Priest
                        • Nov 2012
                        • 6716

                        #12
                        Wonderful!

                        Gassho
                        Andy

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                        • Jishin
                          Member
                          • Oct 2012
                          • 4818

                          #13
                          Taigu,

                          Zazen this morning was particularly worthless and it may have been a reflection of your beautiful poem/teaching.

                          Thanks again.

                          Gassho, John

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                          • Taigu
                            Blue Mountain White Clouds Hermitage Priest
                            • Aug 2008
                            • 2710

                            #14
                            Dear John,


                            please, please, don"t judge your zazen.

                            as is

                            as

                            is

                            gassho


                            T.

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                            • Jishin
                              Member
                              • Oct 2012
                              • 4818

                              #15
                              Thank you Taigu.

                              Gassho, John

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