#Soen nakagawa

[terracemuse]

[naviarlab]

naviarhaiku519 – morning service

morning service offering its fragrance a white lily

Sôen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. His teachings emphasized the importance of direct experience and the integration of Zen philosophy into everyday life.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 20th December 2023

Haiku by Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

Picture by Gavin Stokes https://unsplash.com/photos/XLWaJhNKMbg

[putah-creek]

Sound of mountain sound of ocean everywhere spring rain -Soen Nakagawa

[zenzenzen]

This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable. What are we touching right here and now?

- Soen Nakagawa

[kamala-laxman]

Endless is my vow under the azure sky boundless autumn

Soen Nakagawa

[true-person-of-no-rank]

[aspiritualwarrior]

All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.

Soen Nakagawa

[hocuspicus]

All beings are flowers blossoming in a blossoming universe.

Soen Nakagawa

[amokedas]

All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.

Soen Nakagawa

[thedarkacademiastuff]

Mine is ; a homeless home and a selfless self.

- Soen Nakagawa.

[terracemuse]

Autumn light Fills the room Vacancy.

-Soen Nakagawa 1907-1984-

[naviarlab]

naviarhaiku509 – Disappearing

Disappearing snow on mountain peak unfurls a rainbow

Sôen Nakagawa was a key figure in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from Japan to the Western world. Author Sean Murphy, in his “One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories”, tells us an interesting story about the Zen Buddhist master during his time in the U.S.:

“Soen loved to walk around New York City. He’d stare at the lighted skyscrapers, at their tops, he claimed he saw Buddha figures in the lights. “Look at the Buddha,” he’d point, “Shining Buddha!” He’d fill the sleeves of his robes with nuts and berries from Central Park or herbs growing in the sidewalk cracks, and add them to his bowl at the next meal. He loved the musical Fiddler on the Roof, and when asked a question about why some particular point of ceremony needed to be performed in a certain way, he might burst into song, responding “Tradition…!”

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 11th October 2023

Haiku by Sôen Nakagawa https://tricycle.org/magazine/endless-vow-zen-path-soen-nakagawa/

Picture by David Maunsell https://unsplash.com/photos/gvhx3qnWWGw

[putah-creek]

All are nothing but flowers In a flowering universe. -Nakagawa Soen-Roshi

[coastmoor]

Paradox

  picked by an old woman’s hand herbs green and glowing Soen Nakagawa ———————————————— Yesterday A box built For growing potatoes Today A fresh delivery Of seeds and plants The picking Will be sometime In the future But for now We hold onto The promise: “It is not that the form is only material And the emptiness spiritual” Quotation is from Stephen Batchelor’s The Art of Solitude haiku mind 108 poems to cultivate awareness  & open your heart is by Patricia Donegan http://dlvr.it/Rg3vJ9 Hope you like it

[infinitedonut]

All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.

Soen Nakagawa