Arts: This Dewdrop World

[Heiso]

I recently re-read Issa's famous dewdrop haiku and while I previously liked it, something really hit me this latest reading:

This dewdrop world –
Is a dewdrop world,
And yet, and yet…

At first I found it incredibly haunting that he seems to be saying that despite our practice and all our Buddhist teachings, there are times where our sorrow is just too much and overwhelms us.

But then I read it as that while Buddhism gives us all these practices and answers, we aren't made of stone and it is healthy to feel and express emotion. As Jundo sometimes says, when it's time to cry, we cry.

Gassho,

Heiso

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