Living Zen Life

"To study the Buddha Way is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be experienced by the ten thousand things." (Eihei Dogen)
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Slow beach walking
sea and sky blue billows
I a fleeting sensation 
vanishing quickly as it came
being nothing at all
meaningless as waves 
toppling onto shore

I was not anything at all
calm eternal windblown
wave upon wave upon wave
morning to night
sun soaked moon lit
wave upon wave upon wave
perpetual
   
moment erased
in the instant of sensation
thinking it a thing 
to write about think about
penetrate it's meaning

human concept - meaning -
to be discarded as any other differentiation
separating one thing from another
all this time thinking meaning 
was all I wanted

trying to get the moment back
a waste of time
ensnare it in words
futility upon futility

It will come again
surprise me stay longer
allow sublimity transcendence
to suspend moment into eternity