Children,
let’s go to the mountain
to view violets.
If they scatter away tomorrow,
what can we do?
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K Tanahashi
spirituality
wordless wednesday
Now, at this
Though I gaze upon the setting sun,
Fond within my thoughts
In the land of Amida, alone,
Is the evening sky.
~Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office Toshinari*
*cited:
vedauwoo meditations
universe in a grain
The beginning of the sustenance of life
Is all in yin and yang.
The limitless can open up
The light of the great limit.
Diligently polished, the mirror of mind
Is bright as the moon;
The universe in a grain
May rise, or it may hide.
~Sun Bu-er*
*cited:
Immortal Sisters
Trans & Ed T. Cleary
peaceful spring
Day by day, day by day, and day by day,
quietly in the company of children I live.
In my sleeves, tiny embroidered balls, two or three.
Useless, intoxicated, in this peaceful spring.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K Tanahashi
photo 101: bliss
may I find the equanimity
that will ease the darkness
of envious resentment
so that the rays of enlightenment will
fill my world with the loving-kindness of bliss
sunbeams
won’t you sing?
Won’t you sing?
I will get up and dance.
How can I sleep
with the timeless
moon this evening?
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K. Tanahashi
weekly photo challenge: reward
Take care now;
I am going for
takuhatsu.
You stay in this
borrowed hut.
~Ryokan*
Join Krista’s Reward photo challenge!
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K. Tanahashi
in this deep mountain…
In town
there are sounds
of flutes and drums.
But in this deep mountain
only a pine rustles.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Kazuaki Tanahashi
weekly photo challenge: express yourself
Were there someone
in the world
who feels as I feel,
we would talk all night
in this grass hut.
~Ryokan*
visit The Daily Post to participate in Krista’s photo challenge: express yourself
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Kazuaki Tanahashi
at times I hear…
One thousand peaks merge with frozen clouds;
ten thousand paths have no human trace.
Day by day just facing the wall,
at times I hear snow drift over the window.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Kazuaki Tanahashi
weekly photo challenge: shadowed
We meet and we part.
Coming and going–hearts like passing clouds.
Except for the marks of a frosty-hair brush,
human traces are hard to find.
~Ryokan*
visit The Daily Post to view or participate in Jen’s photo challenge: shadowed
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Kazuaki Tanahashi
a meditative journey 
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