A novel idea!
What if it’s untrustworthy?
Then what will you do?
What a Zen monster!
Walking back to India —
Dead, with one sandal!
Warning, practicers:
Spawn of the Five Aggregates —
Don’t be fooled again!
Further instruction
Is apparently called for —
Don’t eat those onions!
What is instruction?
Who can tell you what to do?
The Thus-Come One can!
What is illusion?
Not what you may think it is —
Thought is delusion
What is the Matrix
of the so-called Thus-Come One?
Just thus — this suchness.
What is it that sees?
Is it the eye or the mind?
Or anything else?
Inside the body?
Outside it or in-between?
Or anywhere else?
It doesn’t matter
what posture you may adopt —
the truth is the same.
We should not deceive,
harm or despise another —
seems impossible!
May all be happy —
What kind of cruel joke is that?
This is Samsara!
“What is accomplished”
is not a question in Zen —
it is a statement.
A prodigal child
may not ever return home.
It is up to them.
A little white lie
can go a long way — stopping
fools dead in their tracks
Rising on command,
who were these bodhisattvas?
In truth they were us.
Eternal lifespan
of the Buddha is nonsense —
the transcendent kind.
Equilibrium
Maybe even equipoise.
It’s in the balance.
Not bringing us down,
like gravity — empathy
is lifting us up.
What is compassion?
It’s not what you think it is —
our kind Universe