Category Archives: Dogen

  Thirty casual poems at my grass hut (5):   Being deep in mountains, Cicadas tell the dusk, High in their voices Through peaks and hills.     Sōan-no gū-ei sanjisshu (5):   Yama fuka-mi Mine-nimo O-nimo Koe-tatete Kyō-mo kure-nu-to … Continue reading →

  Thirty casual poems at my grass hut (4):   How could they know The very true Way Who have never ridden On four horse carriages?     Sōan-no gū-ei sanjisshu (4): Yotsu-no uma Yotsu-no kuruma-ni Noranu-hito Makoto-no michi-wo Ikade … Continue reading →

  Thirty casual poems at my grass hut (3):   The grass of encountering The Shakya-Dharma with great joy – I would never tread on The path other than this.     Sōan-no gū-ei sanjisshu (3):   Ureshiku-mo Saka-no mi-nori-ni … Continue reading →

  Thirty casual poems at my grass hut (2):   I, being foolish, Needn’t become a Buddha, If only, being a monk, I could cross beings over!     Sōan-no gū-ei sanjisshu (2):   Orokanaru Ware-wa hotoke-ni Narazu-tomo Shujō-wo watasu Sō-no-mi-nareba … Continue reading →

  Equinox is called Higan (彼岸, Other Shore, Nirvana, often used as O-Higan, Respectable Higan, with honorific “O”) and celebrated for five days in Japan, welcoming the ancestors’ spirits as hotoke-sama (仏様), venerable buddhas. The following pictures of the full … Continue reading →

  Thirty casual poems at my grass hut:   Asleep or awake in a grass hut What I say always is: Namu Shakamuni Buddha Commiserate (all) please!     Sōan-no gū-ei sanjisshu   Kusa-no io-ni Nete-mo samete-mo Mōsu-koto Namu Saka-muni-buchi … Continue reading →