NOTHING TO SAY

Fallen leaves gather in the wind

But have no tales of sorrow to share

The flowers of summer blossom not in vain

The dried up grass feels no withering pain

As time passes and my hairs gray

I too have nothing to say! 

BREAK IN AT DAWN

Broken locks

Open doors

Missing things

Unaffected by all

Through the shattered window

Teaching me to let go

The morning sun glows! 

STRIVING FISH

 

Striving hard

Holding back the changing the tide

Deep sea fish !

SOMEWHERE ELSE

Somewhere else to be

Something else to keep

You crave and seek!

Constantly!

The heretic says!

 To seek is to suffer! 

So dear friend!

Let go and be free!  

YOURS IS THE CHOICE

All that you seek

Will lead to suffering!

All that you let go

Will lead to happiness

The heretic says!

Yours is the choice my friend!  

SLOW AND SILENT

Slow and silent

The sun rises

The flower blossoms

The fruit ripens

Mindful in contemplation

Slow and silent

I too shall let go ! 

MEANDERING LEAF

Meandering in peace

Gurgling in happiness

The Clear water flows!

A leaf caressed by the gentle currents! 

I float on, in blissful silence! 

ANOTHER PRAYER

To give like the sunshine

Equal to one and all

With love and Compassion

To flow steadily like the mighty river

Without cling to the banks

Letting go!

To accept like the endless ocean

Irrespective of the source or content

All that life offers

Oh!  Lord of the ever-changing universe

Bless me with your divine grace 

LET GO

The black hole of craving!

The illusion understanding!

The silence of suffering!

The anger of denial!

Oh! Just let go!  

NEW START

A new star in the endless sky!

A new beginning!

A new start!

A new face !  A New life!

Happy is the lonesome heart!

Only if it can forget the past!

CROUCHING BY THE COFFIN

Gathered around the wreathed up coffin

Crouching wearily with aching hearts

What is it friend, you are crying for?

With life’s ups and downs; and a sudden abrupt end

Hasn’t all suffering too, finally ended!

A long tiresome capricious journey

Having finally ended with peace !

Yet, why is it friend, you still lament

Is it the despair of abandonment?

Is it the pain of separation from attachment?

Is it the hopelessness of an un-imaginable future?

Is it for the departed or the un-departed self ; you shed your heavy tears

Weeping and loathing; in self-pity; self doubt and self insecurity

Aren’t they all centred around the illusion of “self”?

In the concept of life and death; there is no permanent label

No label of self, life, or consciousness

As all things ebb and flow; so will your beloved!

And sooner or later you too will!

For in the flux of vanishing phenomena!

Blessed is every moment!  Blessed is every moment of life!

Blessed is every breath, including your very last! 

So listen, dear friend! Rejoice and wipe your pointless tears

Rejoice for the life of your Beloved

Rejoice for the moments you lived and loved

Rejoice too, for the final resting peace!

PLASTIC BAG ON THE LOOSE

The euphoria of existence!

 No feeler to feel; no done or doer!

The emptiness within, capturing the gentle breeze!

The swirl, the twirl, the letting go !

The rise, the lift, and the recurring fall !

Meandering, wandering and surrendering!  

A mere plastic bag on the loose!

Dancing humbly, to the tune of the musical breeze!  

Oh! How blissful is this beauty!

How blissful is this beauty of enlightenment!

MURPHY SAYS

Murphy says! In time!

What’s fragile with break

What’s possible will occur

What’s alive will suffer 

All uprisings will finally fall!

So dear friend

Murphy says!  Let it be! 

ZAZEN

 

In the midst of a clamorous crowd of feelings

Something remains silent

In the midst of the dazzling dance of perception

Something silently watches

In the midst of all this watching

Something dies! Something is silently let go!

No desire, no seeking, no satisfaction!

No existence! No nonexistence!

Only zazen! 

SEA OF FEELINGS

Blue skies; the water flowing!

Fleeting feelings floating!

Figuring, fighting!

Fielding, fending!

In foamy fits of frenzy!

Formless  forces failing!

Futile fusion in a frothy fugue!   

Flowing feelings; now finally fleeting! 

BLISS OF NOT KNOWING

The ticking clock does not know what a moment of time is!

The glowing Light does not know what brightness is!

The spinning earth does not know what the feel of the ground is!

The infinitely blue sky does not know what vastness is!

Yet with a still mind; I can sense all these and much more!

Oh reasoning mind of mine!

There is much more to life; than what you can ever sense!

So let go of your fluttering thoughts and become this everlasting bliss!

KOAN NOT TO

 

In this cloudy world of distractions

To see is not to see

To do is not to do

To understand is not to

And to know is but mere delusion

Yet, when the morning sun shines in silence

To let go, is true enlightenment!

LEAF IN THE MONSOON

The lashing rain is pouring

Transient streams are flowing

Drawn by the wavy currents

A leaf lost in the monsoons

Floating along in peace

Nothing to watch for; nothing to wish for

No preferred time; no desired destination

Floating in ecstasy; taking the course of destiny

With every sudden change of course

How limitless is the bliss!

PAINTING A DIFFERENT CANVAS

Painting a different canvas today



With the fading colors of yesterday

Stained faces and tainted ways


Same worn out  brushes and the old rusty strokes



Patterns of the past and waning colors of hope



Oh, what picture can you paint?



When your brush is sticky, and your colors fade! 

TAINTED GLASS SHATTERED

Through tainted glass I view the world

A tainted heart I see

Through tainted glass I see the sun

Let tainted colors be!

Through tainted glass I raise the wall 

A tainted life to be?

Though tainted glass may clear away

But can a shattered ever glass be?