Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Summer tale
Monday, June 09, 2008
Dead Guru Blues
青山自青山、白雲自白雲
"The blue mountains are of themselves blue mountains;
"The white clouds are of themselves white clouds."
Mountain-Buddha's body
My clouded eye
an eye anyway
Endless clouds
over the mountain ablazed
tracks are lost
tricks broken
tears wiped away
the body of space
takes countless forms
and returns to itself
one two three
as children count
as lovers do
one two three
jewels in simplicity
masks and mirors
fall as sand
no more becoming
seasons seen as such
winter doesn't turn into spring
wood into ash
ice into water
the big swearing buddy
originally Buddha
has lost the plot
the cursing guru
bullies shadows
and chases ghosts
empty ermitage
the true form of the teacher
has left
just the racket of bitterness
frustration and arrogance
to be heard
he buys into the game of thoughts
and takes big bites into dead bodies
tasty nasty feast
and yet
Blue and white
mountains and clouds
still
in stillness