our lives adrift
in causality and flux
catch the wave
Category: Buddhism SGI
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,
The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra, vol. 4)
758 R
in muddy shallows
a lotus survives
all else washed away
703
buddha– anyone
who wakes up
and smells the karma
702
beggar children bow
offer mud pies to buddha
who bows back
666
cat on my lap
bows to altar
morning prayer
644
from dust to atom
neutron to quark
life blooms forth
karma is the spark
548
the buddhas promise
winter always turns to spring
death gives way to birth
六十六
442
puff of down drifting
on voices of those chanting,
prayer uplifting
439/s
cherry, plum, damson
each blossom has its beauty
blest to be themselves
424
buddha lives in my
mirror– not in a garden
— not in a temple
