This year´s Chokudai is YUME – dream. The famous zen master Nansen was asked, “when you do zazen and your mind becomes pure, the seeing self awareness and the objective seen world, perceiving these as one is satori. No matter what you see, all is seen as truth. How about this?” Nansen replied: “people nowadays see the flower growing in the garden, and say to themselves, `what a beautiful flower has blossomed! ´ Seeing all as if in a dream, that is how it is, isn´t it? Who would there...
Memorial Poem for Tsusendo Mumon Roshi Being touched by the pure wind, the nose was pierced through All life long teaching the truth of Zen Purging devils and Buddhas – nothing permitted to pass The whole world needs to know the shining of the ancient´s path
