True person manifest throughout the ten quarters of the world ( Read more... )

Not willing to let go of grasping and rejecting ( Read more... )

Where there are humans
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.

-- from A Box of Zen: Haiku the Poetry of Zen, Koans the Lessons of Zen, Sayings the Wisdom of Zen, Edited by Manuela Dunn Mascetti / Edited by Timothy Hugh Barrett
Poetry Chaikhana | Kobayashi Issa - Where there are humansOr. following up on Granger's commentary: (To Buddhas. flies are also ( Read more... )

by Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku

English version by Robert Aitken
Original Language Chinese

There is the leisurely one,
Walking the Tao, beyond philosophy,
Not avoiding fantasy, not seeking truth.
The real nature of ignorance is the Buddha-nature itself;
The empty delusory body is the very body of the Dharma.
Poetry Chaikhana | Hsuan ( Read more... )

English version by Gabriel Rosenstock ( Read more... )

English version by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto

Barn's burnt down --
now
I can see the moon.

-- from Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto

Poetry Chaikhana | Masahide - Barn's burnt down

i  just read Job
now i read
Masahide
Job is longer.

English version by Stephen Mitchell ( Read more... )

When the mind is at peace,
the world too is at peace.
Nothing real, nothing absent.
Not holding on to reality,
not getting stuck in the void,
you are neither holy nor wise, just
an ordinary fellow who has completed his work.

Poetry Chaikhana | P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang) - When the mind is at peaceP'ang Yun lived in the eightth century ( Read more... )

by Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku

English version by Robert Aitken

Right here it is eternally full and serene,
If you search elsewhere, you cannot see it.
You cannot grasp it, you cannot reject it;
In the midst of not gaining,
In that condition you gain it.

Poetry Chaikhana | Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku - [39] Right here it ( Read more... )

only one koan matters
you

-- from Crow With No Mouth: Fifteenth Century Zen Master Ikkyu, Translated by Stephen Berg
Poetry Chaikhana | Ikkyu (Ikkyu Sojun) - only one koan matters