beggar children bow
offering mud pies
the buddha bows back
Category: Buddhism SGI
1646rπ
three rings to begin
cat leaps out of the bowl bell
first morning prayer
1633βοΈ
a buddhist meeting
so many younger people
just a few snow owls
1527r
alas, unemployed
yet so overjoyed
a frog pondβs buddha
π¦
1525r
surrounds and within
we are glasses of water
deep in rhythmic seas
π
1515
japanese children
making snow bodhisattvas
outside the temple
1510
buddha sits outside
among garden gnomes
mandara blooming
1503
chanting in anger
grinding prayer beadsβ
the string snaps apart
1449
backlit by sunlight
each maple leaf turns crimson
lifeβs a burning house
1437
young girls rehearsing
spin and snap their flags
windy parking lot
1405r
at evening prayer
cat kneels on my lap
bows to the altar
1359r
this lotus survives
saved by mud and roots
all else washed away
1266
give water to deer
next birth, perhaps
I might be one
1242
taffy our tabby
another ring of the bell
prayers for deceased
1221
our lives adrift
in causality and flux
catch the wave
1208
endless life revealed
wet clay shapes itself
on the potter's wheel
1180
I pray to the spider
nam-myoho-renge-kyo
before swatting it
937
she reads the sutra
from a smartphone
her face illumined
Art by Linda S. Hawkes, quote from Nichiren
781
living in a house
of nine small rooms
then stepping outside
into bright sunshine–
our buddha nature
(Paraphrase of Daisaku Ikeda,
TheΒ Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4)
