Good morning!
We could see the beautiful bright full moon this morning. Seven hundred
sixty years ago, Dogen made the following poem just before passing away:
Even in the autumn, when
I’d expect to see it again,
I could not have slept
With the moon of tonight.
He made the following poem also, meaning that his poems were really on
the Buddha mind and its ways and worlds:
In the spring wind
My words were strewn –
People may consider
Them as poems on flowers.
Even though we can seldom see the full moon in the clear sky, we can see
the Buddha mind always, if only we sit in this Buddha mind seal.
We hope we can see the beautiful brilliant full moon tonight again in
the clear calm spring sky with our Buddha mind seals.
3/27/13
