2712

against the window again the fly can't escape from this here and now

2702

becoming confused after sitting for so long... what's this all about?

2700

at a hard's day night on my cushion, nodding off sleepy, thoughts driftin…

2693 (on 長沙遊山 Cháng​shā Wandering in the Mountains Case)

on a quiet halt sitting by the mountain path spring or fall, Who knows?

2691 (on 長沙遊山 Cháng​shā Wandering in the Mountains Case)

ah! at last spring comes! it feels so much easier to get enlightened

2643 (on 雲門文偃 Yúnmén Wényăn's The Sound of the Bell Case)

pondering back: how did I land on this cushion this spring this morning

2516 (life in the 禅堂 Zendō)

a light winter rain arises during our sitting refreshes the zendo

2503

five, six, seven, eight who is this that keeps counting while I am sitting?

2494 (on 見跡 Discovery of the Footprints - the 二十牛 Second Ox Herding Picture)

these rustling trees what do they try to tell me? I sit and listen

2491 (on 雲門文偃 Yúnmén Wényăn's Appropriate Response Case)

readying to join this new season of the world I can't but just sit

2475 (on 弘忍 Hongren's Meeting a Person of the Way case)

at the Zendo's door a worn-out toothless granny I smiled back at her /di…

2471 (on 尋牛 Seeking the Ox - the 一十牛 First Ox Herding Picture)

again and again on this cushion, unsure of what I'm doing here

2463 (on the Practice of Martial Arts)

have you seen it? A dragon just swirled by? No one has - and yet

2437 (life in the 禅堂 Zendō)

everyday I sit I take a new place facing the same old white wall

2435 (life in the 禅堂 Zendō)

the kyōsaku snaps! my racing thoughts quietly get shattered away

2416

whispers from the trees gentle rain or rustling breeze? can't tell from m…

2401 (on 大鑒惠能 Huineng's Good and Not-good case)

until the sun rises no sky no sea to be seen sitting before dawn

2382 (upon reading a text by Bernardo Soares)

bored on my cushion I see this boredom through and go sitting some more

2376 (upon reading a text by Bernardo Soares)

after my sitting wary to be back to this impossible world

2354 (on 平常是道 Nánquán’s Ordinary Mind)

before my sitting I fit messy odds and ends in a neat drawer

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