🌸 ''The entire world is mind ground; the entire world is blossom heart ...

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Because the entire world is blossom heart, the entire world is plum blossoms.''




Dogen (1253)

Excerpted from Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi 1985 🌸

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1. 🌸 ''Old plum tree bent and gnarled''

Dogen (1253) - My late master Taintong ascended the seat and taught the assembly:

''Old plum tree bent and gnarled

All at once opens 🌸 one blossom, two blossoms,

three, 🌸 four, five blossoms, uncountable 🌸 blossoms, 🌸

not proud of purity,

not proud of fragrance 🌸

spreading, becoming spring,

blowing over grass and trees


Whirling, changing into wind, wild rain,

falling, snow, all over the earth.

The old plum tree is boundless.''

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4. Thank you

My life has lost
An 86 year old treasure
Who had little use for flowers
But who loved fruit
In his hungry life
Now I shall hope
He may spend some days being
A gnarled old plum tree
Able to produce both countless blossoms
And abundant sweet plums
As easily as standing
Under blue skies
In a green field
In heavens breeze.

My sweet friend and love
I pray you have joy now
And not only peace.

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6. How could you know.

Wow. Chills.

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7. 🌸 The entire world is blossom heart ...

Your poem was answered by dancing Cranes 🌸