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Tag archives: Poetry

Reworking Dogen’s white mountain poem from Sanshodoei

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From the Sanshodoei poems, I have been working on the English translations with John Fraser – 我庵は こしのしらやま 冬ごもり 凍もゆきも くもかかりけり waga iho wa koshi no shirayama fuyugomori kouri mo …

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1 March, 201825 November, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: Dogen, Poetry, Soto Zen, Waka

moon cloud – secluded within snow

moon cloud softly emergingbreathing plumes of blue snow dustswirling aroundour scratched out rooftop

1 March, 201829 July, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: Poetry

Waves breaking through light – Kusen collaboration

John Fraser’s Kusen Master Dogen’s poem ‘Zazen Practice’: The moon mirroredBy a mind freeOf all distractions;Even the waves, breaking,Are reflecting its light We have a primitive idea what a symbol …

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1 March, 201822 June, 2020Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: Dogen, Kusen collaboration, photography, Poetry

Discovered in my sketchbook poetry notes

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fragile manoeuvring through pale ochre land gaping dark blue fissure within the sky a light hole self transparent roaming path hill spontaneously becoming deer hare blown by atlantic gusts everything …

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10 February, 201830 July, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: Poetry

Windswept Carn an Tuirc and Glas Maol

waga iho wakoshi no shirayamafuyugomorikouri mo yuki mokumo kakari keri my Koshiwhite mountaincozy winter denice and snowoverlaid by clouds Eihei Dogen The voice of the valley is endlessly preaching.The colour …

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1 December, 201530 July, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: Dogen, Poetry

Transient worlds within worlds, and divergence – with translations of Basho and Ryoukan

within the thin covering snow Three Thousand Worlds again inside this world fragile snow falls Ryoukan vision of decay in mind, the wind permeates the body Basho at the month’s …

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14 April, 20151 August, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: Basho, Haiku, Poetry, Ryokan

Vapour Sky 11315

rocky mountain passes, transparent clouds – no up no down, passing between horizons non continuous

11 March, 20152 August, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: photography, Poetry

Ben Ledi – pulsating mountain

temporal voids of cerulean blue – ice holes, pulsating – falling apart rapidly plummeting

28 January, 201528 July, 2019Posted inArt activitiesTags: Poetry, Scotland, walking

Artworks and response by John Fraser

Response to images by John Fraser: The eyes are unseen; All the worlds are visible

14 October, 201430 July, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: abstract, John Fraser, Poetry

(Gatha of Xuedou, Blue Cliff Records) Unevenness, non fixing…

Compiled by Zen Master Yuanwu Keqin (Engo Kokugon, 1063-1135) One, seven, three, five.The truth you search for cannot be grasped.As night advances, a bright moon illuminates the whole ocean;The dragon’s …

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14 October, 201428 July, 2019Posted inArt & BuddhismTags: Poetry

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