the brook » poetry http://yavin4.anshul.info Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Canvas http://yavin4.anshul.info/2011/05/13/canvas/ http://yavin4.anshul.info/2011/05/13/canvas/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 07:52:51 +0000 Anshul http://yavin4.anshul.info/?p=555 Who colours the colours?
What shapes the shapes?
Is it my hand that draws?
Though I seem to hold it
Did I pick this brush?
Who is it that paints?

Show yourself, ghost!
You have much to answer for.

]]> http://yavin4.anshul.info/2011/05/13/canvas/feed/ 0 Mind stopping http://yavin4.anshul.info/2009/04/03/mind-stopping/ http://yavin4.anshul.info/2009/04/03/mind-stopping/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:18:45 +0000 Anshul http://yavin4.anshul.info/?p=372 In an ancient Buddhist monastery in china, there was to be a competition to decide who follows in the master’s footsteps. Each monk that wished to come forward was to write a poem showing his understanding of Zen. The most advanced student, whom everyone expected to win, wrote the following:

The body is the Bodhi Tree
The mind like a bright mirror standing
Take care to wipe it all the time
And allow no dust to cling.

There was another student though, an uneducated peasant who, next day, wrote this:

There never was a Bodhi Tree
Nor bright mirror standing
Fundamentally, not one thing exists
So where is the dust to cling?

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