Still morning...
clouds in the pond of your eyes,
nothing to have. Everything.

Sitting silently, doing nothing, 

spring comes and the grass grows by itself. 

- Basho

...yet impermanence.

Stop talking and thinking,

Stop talking and thinking,
And there is nothing
You will not be able to know. - Sosan

 Joy in the morning,
Sleep in the evening,
What else? - Ekon

I seem to hear your voice
In the song of the nightingale.
In the mist,
Another day passes. -

Remembering a poem by Ryokan and "Dome éspais le jasmin" (Delibes) by Anna Netrebko

May he who lit incense
Tonight,
Have moonlight. 

A tribute to Kikaku

 

 

Dying cricket --
How full of
Life, his song. - Basho

 

I have nothing at all --
But this tranquility!
This coolness! – Issa

A cloud,
Trying to enwrap the moonbeams,
A monsoon shower. - Basho

In my ten-foot bamboo hut
This spring,
There is nothing:
There is everything. - Sodo

Lost in bamboo,
But when moon lights --
My house. – Issa

difference between Mahayana and Theravada

 --what can be said of the difference between Mahayana and Theravada?

http://wisdomquarterly.blogspot.com/2008/08/mahayana-theravada-difference.html

fallen blossoms

fallen blossoms--
the stylish woman leaves
her butt print

-Issa, 1813

I don't have a three star bedroom

...I have one with a thousand stars.

Look up the sky

-dialog from Three Seasons, Vietnamese movie.