spry child hops
from rock to rock-
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Excellent dharma talk. I highly recommend it.
Shaolin Monastery in China is generally regarded to be the home of Chan [Ch’an/Zen] Buddhism. As a monk there, I heard some time ago that there was a great interest in Chan now in the West. For this reason I have come here, hoping to make contact with those interested in the teaching.
I would like to predominantly talk about Bodhidharma and his instructions with regard to Chan meditation. Bodhidharma was the twenty-eighth successor to Shakyamuni Buddha. He came to China from India in approximately AD 520. Shortly after his arrival, he discovered that the Chinese had no understanding of Buddhism and could not absorb its principles. He then began to meditate in a cave at the back of the Shaolin Monastery. He was there for nine years.
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Dozing frogs
Lovers kiss
Rebuilding
couple rebuilds
after the disaster-
empty cocoons
Forces of sanity
called to a halt
by the forces of sanity
derecho wind
A leaf falls
A leaf falls
bringing a smile
summer heat
Construction zone
children’s toy
left out in the rain-
construction zone
Shatter
in the garden
dawn is born
the tulip shatters
Tulip
the stamen
glistens with moisture-
RSVP
The above haiku was inspired by the line “suggestion of receptiveness” in the book “Botany of Desire” by Michael Pollan. The book is a good treatise on natural and artificial selection with the use of folklore, legends and poetic prose.
The underlying question Mr. Pollan is posing asking is who is influencing who, us or the plants. I highly recommend this book to those who want to further understand the Buddhist concepts of interdependence and interconnectedness.