The Drift of Things
“All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything.
Zen
Self-Cultivation
Next is he who cultivates the shoots of goodness. The shoots being cultivated he is able to attain to truthfulness.
The Way
“To be true is the Way of heaven. To make oneself true is the Way of man.
Zen and the Art of Jigsaws
Fortunately, it was more usual for Bartlebooth, at the end of such hours of waiting, having gone through every stage of controlled anxiety and exasperation, to reach a kind of ecstasy, a stasis, a sort of utterly oriental stupor, akin, perhaps, to the state archers strive to reach
Heaven's Way
Stretch a bow to the very full,
And you will wish you had stopped in time;
Temper a sword-edge to its very sharpest,
And you will find it soon grows dull.
When bronze and jade fill your hall.
My Thoughts Are Elsewhere
You ask me why I live in the grey hills.
I smile but do not answer, for my thoughts are elsewhere.
Like peach petals carried by the stream, they have gone
To other climates, to countries other than the world of men.
Black Crow
A black crow
Has settled himself
On a leafless tree,
Fall of an autumn day.
At midnight
Under the bright moon,
A secret worm
Digs into a chestnut.
On a snowy morning,