84. ZEN REMARKS

84. Should you still ask 'What is Zen?' see the following:

              We ate upmarket,
               then a night of throwing up -
               now weak and laid low.

83. ZEN REMARKS

83. With neither road nor dust
nor emperor 's word to avoid
the non poet offers these words
with no thought for eloquence.

82. ZEN REMARKS

82. With day breaking all about her
       this old woman forgets being old, being woman
       and sees in the ten thousand things her own true face
       - no need for makeup now.

81. ZEN REMARKS

81. What  are you doing there in India?  I lie down. I sit up. I stand. I walk.

80. ZEN REMARKS

80. Fuketsu's speck of dust:
       pick it up
       and you marvel at the temples
       of Emperor Wu;
       leave it be
       and you hum a lonely tune
       with an old barbarian;
       the tune Setcho plays
       on the stringless lute
       of his fearsome staff.

79. ZEN REMARKS

79.     meeting the other
           faceless shapeless
           in the pitchblack of a moonless night -
           no wonder there is no recognition
           and yet ... and yet ...

78. ZEN REMARKS

78. On the road. Walking the path. Following the way. Car bus plane taxi autorickshaw. Crossing mountains, rivers, a vast continent, the wine dark sea. Sights and sounds. No where to lay one's head. Visiting temples and masters. Polishing one's understanding. Which way now? Straight ahead with neither purse nor haversack. Onward, ever onward. The horizon is always beyond. The rolling stone ...
Though the Way of the Awakened is without end, I vow to walk all along the way.

Teisho: Joshu's 'Wash your bowls'