for Senna (IGNORE)

[twelveoone]

Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku
(Thirty Translations and One Commentary)
herehttp://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm

The entire teaching of Zen is framed by questions
frog's ass
bottle rocket
whoosh

frog's ass
bottle rocket
to the moon

which end line do you prefer? the onomatopoeia of whoosh or the subtle reference to the Honeymooners i.e Ralph Kramden as Basho or the Buddha, and wonderful interplay of ass with moon?

 

[twelveoone]

Samadhi means “absorption,” but fundamentally it is unity with the whole universe. When you devote yourself to what you are doing, moment by moment — to your kôan when on your cushion in zazen, to your work, study, conversation, or whatever in daily life — that is samadhi. Do not suppose that samadhi is exclusively Zen Buddhist. Everything and everybody are in samadhi, even bugs, even people in mental hospitals. - Robert Aitken

I do like a cushion for my zazen - 1201