Thursday, December 14, 2017

In Place 37

Bison have moved south

across the snow to accept

farmers' delivered hay;

no geese fly, no starlings chat





The hut’s large windows permit close observation of the life cycles of one’s plant and animal neighbors. One comes to realize there is no separation.


If we think, “I am here and the mountain is over there,” that is a dualistic way of observing things.

--Shunryu Suzuki, Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness 28.