Water jar.

            
                                                           When I ladle up spring water,
                                                                 the moon enters my water jar.

                                                     (Moon by the window, the calligraphy
                                                        and Zen insights of Shodo Harada)

Impermanence.

 

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer.

What makes us suffer is wanting

things to be permanent,

when they are not.

 

Thich Nhat Hanh.

 

Clouds.

 

Clouds gone, the mountain appears.

Zen proverb.

Love .

 

 

The Grasp of Your Hand.

 

The grasp of Your hand,

by Rabindranath Tagore

 

The River.

 

I cannot keep your waves

says the bank to the river.

Let me keep your footprints in my heart.

 

Rabindranath Tagore

Stray Birds CCII

 

 

The moon.

 

"In the moon thou sendest

thy love letters to me"

said the night to the moon.

"I leave my answers

in tears upon the grass"

 

Rabindranath Tagore

Stray Birds CXXIV