fluffy dog
Kyoto, this morning...
a little fluffy dog on the wet stone
left
for Jizo
Kyoto, ce matin...
left
for Jizo
Kyoto, ce matin...
petit chien en peluche
laissé sur la pierre trempée
pour Jizo
posted by Taigu at 5:13 PM
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
About Me
- Name: Taigu
- Location: Nishinomiya, Kansaï, Japan
Taïgu or Kuma San. French oddity, poet, writer, musician, artist and in love with life itself. Interested in unimportant things, people of no rank. Started zazen in my teens, received the precepts as a Zen priest twenty five years ago. Received Dharma transmission in 2003. I believe that Alexander Technique provides a real and living understanding of zazen. It allows zazen to be alive , fluid and dynamic as opposed to what I met almost everywhere: a fixed and rigid form that feeds intolerance, arrogance and ignorance. Lover of Jizo and Kannon. I was born in 1964 and because of my passion for life and art, I lived many lives in one. Jack of all trades, master of none. I now live in Japan. Surnom : Kuma ou Kuma San. Vaguement français, poète, musicien, artiste et amoureux de la vie même. Passionné par les choses ordinaires, les gens sans importance. Ai commencé Zazen dans mon adolescence, ai reçu les préceptes de moine voici plus de trente ans. Grand amoureux de Jizo et Kannon. Je suis né en 1964 et, de par ma passion pour la vie et l’art, j’ai vécu plusieurs vies en une seule. Touche à tout mais ne maîtrise rien. Ai recu la transmission du dharma en 2002.
Previous Posts
- Spring 2007
- the homeless roof
- the windbell
- Laughing
- Takuhatsu
- In that order
- Mountain poem
- a view/ une vue
- Little Miss Anu
- a stupid question
3 Comments:
Hi Pierre,
Sometimes I feel like that fluffy dog. :)
I think we all do Michael, the poem is the poem, it is what I saw, what I am, just like you, like anybody sometimes. It is very touching to see children offering fluffy toys to Jizo, I also like to think that Jizo is an offering left in front of fluffy toys.
Thank you for your kindness and your own beautiful way that, unlike mine, doesn't preach or scold.
I think that a person who hasn't got the same state as Master Dogen should never fall into the abyss by pretending to be like Master Dogen through preaching and scolding.
But a person who has got the same state as Master Dogen might inevitably preach and scold as vigorously as Master Dogen preached and scolded.
So preaching and scolding, or not, is neither here nor there.
The very difficult problem is: same state as Master Dogen, or not?
If the same, we might have a voice with which to preach and scold. If not the same, we should not pretend. If we don't know, same or not, then what shall we do?
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