Suffer

Suffering, 
I must be clinging to something 
painful. 
What is it? 
Clinched fists won't open.

So Many - a haiku

So many lessons

So many fingers pointing

Always same damn moon

Be Like the Mountain

Be like the Mountain

-Strongly rooted with solid, firm foundation

Be like the Ocean

–Accepting whatever the rivers of the world brings

Be like the Sky

–Let thought objects come and go, don’t cling to anything.

Be bigger than everything

Precepts

A burn and a robe, 

Brown kasa, golden precepts.

I am Gum Won.

Dokusan

No teacher no student no distinction.

When the sword cuts, illusion falls away.

Who then directs this sharp edge?

Lightning and thunder arise together 

from nothing's vast pregnant potential.

Who then voices this newborn's cry?

KATSU!

Words only cloud a flawless diamond.

Lashon Hara - A Meditation on Right Speech

Words -old tricksters!
To unintended wilderness they may lead
Beware! Pitfalls & traps abound!
Better a stuttering arthritic
Than a careless poet or proselyte

A Zen Jewdhist Koan

In releasing the arrow  of "I am" thinking
What happens to the Buddhist?
What happens to the Jew?
Speak and miss the mark.
Don't speak and your bow is dry drawn.

A Bodhisattva's Vow

Practice for the sake of practice.
Be present to here, be present to now.
In the next life, regardless the form, circumstance or realm,
Do the same.
Teach others this way.