Poem | This Eternal Season of Now

Pearl of dew, pure light...

Three thousand worlds,

treasures revealed...

High solitary pine...

Majestic mountain,

sovereign of heaven and earth...

Only a lion sounds like a lion...

The lion does not comport

Itself as a mouse...

Only Buddha nature Universally Loves

as Universal Loving Presence...

Actualized Buddha does not shrink Itself

into fear or acquiesce to its symptoms...

Golden wind is upon us...

How will You as YOU decide

to embrace This eternal season of Now?

清峠