The truth is never taken

The truth is never taken
From another.
One carries it always
By oneself.
Katsu!

Tetto Giko

This Union

This union you want
With the earth and sky,
This union we all need with love,
A golden wing from God's heart just touched the ground,
Now
Step upon it with your brave sun-vows
And help our eyes
To  Dance!

Hafiz

The Guest is inside you and also inside me

The Guest is inside you and also inside me.
The sprout is there hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling, none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go and look around inside.
The blue sky opens out further and further,
The daily sense of failure fades away…
The damage I have done myself becomes preparation
And a million suns come forward with light.
I hear bells ringing that no one has shaken -
Inside "love" there is more joy than we know.
Rain pours down through a clear sky
And the rivers of light are full.
The ocean of this being knows a fathomless love -
That is the fulfillment of life in this body.
Those who hope to be reasonable about it fail.
The arrogance of reason has parted us from love -
With the word "reason" you are already lost,
Feeling thousands of miles from where you are.
How lucky is Kabir, surrounded by all this joy;
He sings inside his own little boat -
His poems are about a soul meeting itself;
They amount to forgetting buying and loss,
They flow beyond coming and going.

Kabir

Not going, not coming

Not going, not coming,
rooted, deep and still,
not reaching out, not reaching in,
just resting, at the center.
The single jewel, the flawless crystal drop,
in the blaze of its brilliance,
the way beyond.

Shih Te 

Há o início

Há o início.
Há o que havia antes do início.
Há o que havia antes de haver o que havia antes do início.
Há a existência.
Há a não existência.
Há o que havia antes da não existência.
Há o que havia antes de haver o que havia antes da não-existência.

Subitamente, passou a existir a não-existência.
Mas, nessa existência da não-existência,
não entendo o que é que de facto existia ou não existia.

Por isso, embora já tenha dito alguma coisa, não sei de que estou a falar.
Terei mesmo dito alguma coisa?
ou não disse nada?


Chuang Tse