Coming, all is clear, no doubt about it.
Going, all is clear, without a doubt.
What, then, is it all?
~Hosshin*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
spirituality
100 days…63rd day
In the mountain shade,
water in the moss
drips between rocks.
I feel a glimmer
of clarity.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…54th day
I don’t regard my life Continue reading
100 days…53rd day
The path is hidden
by Dharma,
invisible,
but memories of you
lead me onward
today, today too…
Today, today too
somehow getting by these days, still
living in a haze
~Issa*
100 days…18 days
*cited:
The Spring of my Life
Trans: S Hamill
in my next life, let me be…
How joyous and kind!
In my next life, let me be
a butterfly afield.
~Issa*
100 days…16 days
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
within each…grow richer
with each lightning flash,
each roll of thunder, me and
the world grow richer
~Issa*
100 days…15th day
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
snowy white dew
snowy white dew–and
above the potato fields,
the River of Heaven
~Issa*
100 days 14th day
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
this, too, is karma
under the shady trees
resting with a butterfly–
this, too, is karma
~Issa*
100 days…13th day
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
light spring rain
In a light spring rain
a discarded letter blows
through a bamboo grove
~Issa*
100 days…12th day
*cited:
The Spring of my Life
Trans: S Hamill
flower gazing
in the midst of this world
we stroll along the edge of hell
gazing at flowers
~Issa
100 days…10th day
blown softly away
Blown softly away
in rustling breezes, spring leaves
fields of new grasses
~Issa*
*cited:
The Spring of My LIfe
Trans: S Hamill
a meditative journey 
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