Zen Poem

True spaciousness, true aliveness, true flow,
True flexibility, true peace, true nothingness, true breath.

Letting go of the one who lets go

Sense the space that takes up no space
The song that has no sound

The infinite that takes up no time
The truth that cannot be thought about
It offers you no choice, no existence, no being, no thought

Rest in its bliss if you can
There is really nothing that is not already there.
The first act of existence has always been there and is the only thing that has ever been there
This courage is your co-creator and friend

Gently wake up

Lightning Strikes

From the gathering clouds of potentiality
The lightning strike of the present moment
Parts the waters of past and future

It strikes again and again
Yet there is only one strike

Fun to think about while the lightning strikes
Between each thought illuminating such folly

There is no real place where truth is not
There is no real place where self is

Nothing more need be said

Where There is No Place

Where there is no place
There is nothing to do
There is nothing to not do

There is no sound, and no one not to hear it
God looks into the mirror and
There is nothing on either side

Pure form - pure emptiness
Cannot be seen, touched or thought

What a Relief

Not to seek at all
Not to think at all
Not to do at all
Not to be at all
Not to try at all
What a relief!

Slide down the mountainside
Feel the fresh air
Deeper, deeper and deeper
Splash into infinity
What fun!
Now only the ocean

Landscape

Gently touch the landscape of your mind
Rocks, grass, mountains, caves, rivers, glaciers
Who could disturb such beauty

Tall grass dancing and bobbing in the wind
Reveals the invisible force that has moved it
and harmonized it

You came into being before you came into being

Gentle isness breathes its fresh air upon me
Gentle isness waters my ground and allows me to grow

The lovers embrace the duality and
Simultaneously let go into its one perfect freedom

Silence

In the space of silence
The truth gently offers itself.

Priorities

Existence comes before feeling
Present comes before past
Truth comes before belief
Breath comes before action
Being comes before mind
Feeling comes before thought
Risking comes before security
Being comes before being

Bring the truth of your existence into the present with your breath

In the waters of radiant honesty and compassion
I bring forth my existence into the world. I allow self and others to meet
To dance the dance of same and different
Security without risk is death

Suddenly it is God himself that takes this divine risk to manifest and know himself in infinite ways