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Zen Haiku's

( Zen Haiku is just a small statement, but far more valuable than great holy scriptures. Haiku's are often used by Zen Masters to explain subtle deep points.. )

I have no home;
Autumn deepens. - Santoka
Cuckoo,
Take me up to where
Clouds drift. - Uko
Not yet having become a buddha,
This ancient pine tree,
Idly dreaming - Issa
Joy in the morning,
Sleep in the evening,
What else? - Ekon's
For my sake,
Do not light the lamp yet,
This evening of spring. - Gyodai
Evening moon:
Plum blossoms start to fall
Upon the lute. - Shiki
The thief
Left it behind --
The moon at the window. - Ryokan
Old pond frog jump
in water
sound - Basho
Does one really have to fret
About enlightenment?
No matter what road i travel,
I'm going home. - Shinsho
Lost in bamboo,
But when moon lights --
My house. – Issa
In my ten-foot bamboo hut
This spring,
There is nothing:
There is everything. - Sodo
If we gain something,
It was there from the beginning.
If we lose anything, it is hidden nearby.
Look at the ball in the sleeve of my robe.
Surely it has great value. - Ryokan
Life is a dewdrop,
Yes i am perfectly convinced.
Life is a dewdrop,
And yet and yet.... – Issa
Coming, i don't enter the gate.
Going, i don't leave by the door.
This very body
Is the land of tranquil light. - Gyokko
After the moon-viewing,
My shadow walking home
Along with me. - Sodo
The youngest nightingale that
Can rejoice
Calls to its parents in a yellow
Voice. - Issa
Only the shell
Of the cicada left?
Did it sing itself out of existence? - Basho
I seem to hear your voice
In the song of the cuckoo.
In the mountains,
Another day passes. - Ryokan
Joy in the morning,
Sleep in the evening,
What else? - Ekon
From the white dewdrops,
Learn the way
To the pure land. – Issa
When the stone man nods his head,
The wooden pillar claps its hands. - Anonmyous
I clap my hands
And with the echoes
It begins the dawn --
The summer moon. - Basho

Zen Haiku's Part 2