Poems on the mystic way

Poem:

My poems are poems written on the mystic way. My role model is Rumi and Kirpal. My practice is that of a Zen Buddhist and a Sufi. My greatest concern is for results. I like to maintain the body for the purposes of endurance. Every morning can be your grand date of arrival and completion. It is just a matter of being there. You can economize by just being enlightened. You can live on fresh air, water, lemons and ginger. You can cry in the morning like the alley cat for God to appear. The reason why you do yoga is so your knees and hips will work. You can become in effect a fitness guru. You can use your third eye as your collection center. Satsang is a good place to do restoration. Even an alley cat will keep crying for more. When it rains you can use the extra time to reach God. You can preserve ojas like it was some sort of treasure - that way you can securely guard the entrance. You can put your thumbs in your ears instead of waste time on spotify. Your Guru can just manifest as the sound current. If you wear New Zealand wool you will get very toasty and will not get old. People should establish what they are doing with the rest of their life: I am just doing meditation, reading, writing, playing piano, tennis, volleyball and suing. If you want to obtain a different portrait you could just complain or try to concentrate. The Simran done out of the body is better for the spine. I am

definitely a proponent of upright fixing. I believe it is best “just to sit” (shikan taza) in Zazen which itself is enlightenment and try “nonthinking” ( hi shiryo) and do “the sloughing off of the body and mind” ( shinjin daturaku) and participate in “the primordial ascesis (gyoji) of being itself. This being “practice based enlightenment” (shijo no shu). The fact that the words are there indicates there was something in Japan. It does not have to be “dead sitting in silent illumination” (koza mokusho) but can become truly bright. Using the Japanese words can make it more right. In the Soto house “sitting itself” is the “treasury of the eye of the dharma and the mystic mind of nirvana” (shobo genzo nehan myoshin). You don’t have to have “burned out mind” because you can just try sitting again. From the very start you can directly express the ultimate nature of the mind by just doing zazen which is nothing but “the mystic practice of original verification” (hansho myoshu).

A Poem by David Smith

February 6, 2020

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Dogen’s Manuals of Zen Buddhism

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