Weekly Reading

Ten years ago.....I turned my face for a moment
and it became my life.
Sometimes I go about pitying myself,
and all along
my soul is being blown by great winds across the sky.

—Ojibway saying

Wreekly Reading

I should be content
to look at a mountain
for what it is
and not as a comment on my life.

—David Ignatow

Weekly Reading

Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains,

and waters as waters.

When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point

where I saw that mountains are not mountains,

and waters are not waters.

But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest.

For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains,

and waters once again as waters.

- Ching-yuan