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haiku by Sodo:
AFTER THE MOON-VIEWING,
MY SHADOW WALKING HOME
ALONG WITH ME.
AFTER THE MOON-VIEWING... A full moon -- that has become traditional in Zen. On the full-moon night the Zen seekers don't sleep, they walk into the mountains where the moon has made waterfalls look as if silver is falling, where the moon has made the whole surroundings a dream.
Sodo says, AFTER THE MOON-VIEWING... This is called moon-viewing; it is a tremendously aesthetic experience.
MY SHADOW WALKING HOME
ALONG WITH ME.
Such silence. Nobody is with me, just my shadow walking along with me. After seeing this whole beautiful world, when you enter into your home nobody will be with you, not even your shadow. Your aloneness will be total.
Every meditation is a preparation for enjoying the aloneness which is our nature.
Issa wrote:
NOT YET HAVING BECOME A BUDDHA,
THIS ANCIENT PINE TREE,
IDLY DREAMING.
According to those who have awakened, everything is full of buddhahood. Buddhahood is just the nature of existence. Issa's haiku is saying:
NOT YET HAVING BECOME A BUDDHA,
THIS ANCIENT PINE TREE,
Although it is ancient, it has not yet become a buddha.
IDLY DREAMING.
It is still dreaming. Someday it may wake up. This can be said about everybody. We are all unconscious of our ultimate reality, and we go on dreaming, we go on sleeping, we go on desiring, we go on longing for this and that, not knowing that the greatest treasure is within our awakening.
There is no more than becoming a buddha. You have come to the highest peak of consciousness.
Consciousness is the only wealth.
Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE ONE, MOST SIGNIFICANT ATTRIBUTE A SANNYASIN OF YOURS NEEDS?
My sannyasins don't need, Maneesha, any attribute. My perception of sannyas is to be just yourself. If I say any attribute, I am imposing that attribute on my sannyasins. My sannyas is absolute freedom. With freedom of course a great responsibility comes, but that is not my business.
There is a special
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