Two Autumns

by on September 24, 2011 in Zen

Kamarbon, the Forgotten Village

 

 

I go,

you stay;

two autumns.

Buson

 

 


Each of us is our own world.  That world has no edges – it permeates everywhere.

This is enlightenment.

Accepting our aloneness and  responsibility takes courage.

Getting stuck there is narcissism.

Not perceiving our all encompassing aloneness is delusion.

What is like when one is neither stuck in separateness nor aloneness?

 

 

Autumn evening,

The fog streams.

No one can grasp it.

 

Creative Commons License photo credit: Hamed Saber


5 Responses to “Two Autumns”

  1. Kelli September 24, 2011 at 6:48 pm #

    thank you for this post, Doen.

    From this place of ‘aloneness’ I imagine it would be impossible to feel like a ‘victim’ to others or events, which obviously takes great responsibility and courage. Like owning the fact that you are in the driver’s seat of this brief race from birth to death and the pedal’s to the metal…

    K

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  2. Tulie M Smith September 25, 2011 at 12:10 am #

    I go
    and I stay
    In your autumn.

    thankyou Sensei.
    touching the longing in my heart.

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