First Zazenkai
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TITLE: First Zazenkai
AUTHOR: Dale JOHNSON
SOURCE: Manawa : Breath-Heart-Mind. Newsletter of the Zen Society of New Zealand, #19, Spring 1988, pp. 5
NOTES: Sesshin Poems and other Poems by Members and Visitors of the Zen Society of New Zealand
Gently blows the darkness
linking lake moon and sun
one into the other
The pathway grows silvered
with our effort
grass subdued petal scattered
with each pass of our unsteady feet
It does not seem like enligtenment
to burden this clear day of autumn
with the activity
of our sitting
How brifgtly glimers that moon
caught in the evening cup
of our steadied hands !
