Wash Your Hands

WATANABE SEITEI

Bird on a Persimmon Tree

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Date: c. 1920-1930s

Nothing new under the sun

Cascando

by Samuel Beckett

1.

why not merely the despaired of
occasion of
wordshed

is it not better abort than be barren

the hours after you are gone are so leaden
they will always start dragging too soon
the grapples clawing blindly the bed of want
bringing up the bones the old loves
sockets filled once with eyes like yours
all always is it better too soon than never
the black want splashing their faces
saying again nine days never floated the loved
nor nine months
nor nine lives

2.

saying again
if you do not teach me I shall not learn
saying again there is a last
even of last times
last times of begging
last times of loving
of knowing not knowing pretending
a last even of last times of saying
if you do not love me I shall not be loved
if I do not love you I shall not love

the churn of stale words in the heart again
love love love thud of the old plunger
pestling the unalterable
whey of words

terrified again
of not loving
of loving and not you
of being loved and not by you
of knowing not knowing pretending
pretending

I and all the others that will love you
if they love you

3.

unless they love you

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I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. -- Henry David Thoreau --

Albert Bertelsen, Danish

Famous Buddhist Quotes & Sayings

* Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

* We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.

* To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

* Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

* Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

* Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

* Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

* Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

* One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?"
"No", answered Buddha.
"Then are you a healer?"
"No", Buddha replied.
"Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.
"No, I am not a teacher."
"Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated.
"I am awake", Buddha replied.

Final Destination Zen

Ignacio Burgos (Spanish, b.1968) - Cabeza Azul (Blue Head) - Paris 2001. Spanish-born his works portray anonymous men, women, and children in everyday activities

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