Showing posts with label Dogen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dogen. Show all posts

Friday, March 22, 2013

The one true thing

The Cloud by Dogen
This slowly drifting cloud is pitiful;
what dreamwalkers men become.
Awakened, I hear the one true thing—
Black rain of the roof of Fukakusa temple.

A couple weeks ago in my Tuesday evening meditation group someone mentioned he had been reading a suggested keeping in mind  the phrase, "Now.  Here.  This."

It's the theme of Dogen's poem and a theme I'm trying to remember as I listen for the one true thing in my life this evening. 

Now. 
             
               Here.
                 
                              This.