This Horse

This Horse is unpredictable.

It gallops then trots,

This way, then that.

My trusted map turns out to be

Childish scrawl yet we climb through

beautiful valleys, lush with pines.

Abandoning thoughts of past & future

Illumined by the bright Moon,

I hum to myself,

- Squeeze its mane.

Under-Stand

Standing no-where

As no-one

There is nothing to get

And no-where to go.

Who dares to boast Enlightenment?

Who would cleave the universe in two?

Poem to the Sky-clad

How bitter-sweet,

- Heartbreaking really,

That the sky should believe itself

To be a cloud.

How remarkable!

- Truly joyful!

That the sky should suddenly realize

Its unchanging sky-hood!

One

Sitting in Zen,

Head, pumps out

Birdsong.

Ripple

Early morning Zen,

Nana, coughs

From void.

Natural State

Lone Heron,

Perched on the rocks,

In Zen.

Only Light

The dream is awake.

Ah!

There is nothing for you to get!

Get it?

Transparent Walls

It's funny,

All of your expectations about 'IT',

Your concepts, ideas and prejudices;

They DON'T EXIST!

And yet they get in the way of 'IT'....

Can you?

Can you simply be in this moment without adding anything to it?

Can you stop and rest in this without labelling and naming it, without thinking about it?

Can you see your obviousness?

Can you?

Nightmare

This dream-world

For which so many kill and are killed,

So thin,

So, so thin...

Impossible

Can you capture space

With a net?

Simplicity

Meet yourself without names and labels.

Be innocent not clever.

It really is this simple.

Wake up!

You are HERE

To WAKE UP to what

You ARE.

(or aren't)...

Dew

The reflection of the garden

In the morning dew

Is only water,

- And yet! And yet!

(with thanks to Issa)

Loneliness

Sad horse,

I'll be,

Your friend.

Birds

Magpies at dusk,

- Crisp, clear, alive.

Love

If I could only tell you

How things really are,

Oh,

How you would laugh....

Joke

I don't have anything to say;

Nothing to sell,

No point to make,

No argument to defend.

My life's a mess,

I'm sliding into debts,

And I need a new pair of shoes.

I take public transport.

Don't ask me why all of this

Makes me laugh.

Unlearning

This is not about naming.

This is about being nameless,

and nameless being.