Archive for the 'Dana' Category

One Bright Pearl

My new blog - One Bright Pearl - is finally online although I still am developing the blogs presentation. From today onward, all posts relating specifically to my practice of takuhatsu and zazen as a homeless mendicant following the Way as taught by Dogen Zenji will be posted there.

Denver - August 20, 2008

The morning sunlight angles across the wooden floor marking the passage of time as customers come and go at Common Grounds Coffee Shop in downtown Denver. I have spent the last two hours trying to resolve a pending domain transfer of onebrightpearl.org, soon to be the blog that will document the next several years of […]

Duckweed Finds A Way

The Way I speak of
Is not my own
Heaven and Hell no longer obscures the brightness
Painted rice cakes and zazen
Sustain this dewdrop life
How could this old monk
Not lend a hand?