The clothes taken off:
the nappy is unwrapped
as a present.
Originally posted in Italian on November 29, 2008 at 00:50
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Haiku for a new-born child [VIII]
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Autumn
The cars crackled the dancing
whirls of the leaves just
missing the void.
The autumn winds
unstitched from the sunset
the blond of our crushed hairs.
Originally posted in Italian on November 22, 2008 at 19:09
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Autunm [III]
The horse chestnut in the court:
wearing two leaves,
two earrings.
Originally posted in Italian on November 16, 2008 at 00:48
Monday, November 10, 2008
The sophoras path (by Wang Wei & P'ei Ti)
Aside on the path
________sheltered by the sophoras
in the secret of the shadow
________the green musk flourishes.
They answer the door:
________the servant appears, alone, and greets me.
He thought that the monk from the mountain
________was already arrived.
South of the door,
________beside the sophoras,
there is the path on the edge,
________which brings to the lake I.
As Autumn arrives,
________it rains a lot on the mountain;
nobody collects
________the leaves which fall.
(da: Poems from the river Wang, translated by me from Italian)
Originally posted in Italian on November 9, 2008 at 0:57
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Apocryphal koans: Case VIII
A monk asked Lin-chi the patriarch: – The scriptures pass on that as the Buddha Śākyamuni reached the enlightenment and broke the chain of the twelve causes, he decided not to enter the nirvana, because, moved by a great compassion, he wanted every living being to join that condition.
– You are saying of the bodhisattva.
– After that he broke free, how can the bodhisattva liberate the other ones?
– He ignores them.
– Why can’t he reveal them the Way?
– Breaking free he already did all that he could.
– Then it’s impossible to help the other ones in the Way.
– Ah, you are such an ungrateful person!
Poem
You are really ungrateful
if you don’t thank duly
who liberates you from himself.
One ring is enough to break
the whole chain of the twelve causes
if you don’t wrap yourself in the rest.
But not even ingratitude
could cause any reaction
or karma in who is free.
Originally posted in Italian on November 2, 2008 at 13:19
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