Think I just found my favourite Zen poem. Found it in Martine Batchelor's, "Way
of Zen":
Silently a flower blooms
In silence falls away.
Yet here now, at this moment, in this place
The whole of the flower, the whole of
the world is blooming.
this is the talk of the flower,
The truth of the blossom
The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.
(Zenkei
Shibayama)
It's so evocative of Blake's eternity to be found "in a grain of sand". I also
love that in this poem, as well as in Buddha's holding up of a flower, that we
are all flowers.
Mike (smiling)
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