I'm taking a break from Zen haikus and essays and returning to my earlier passion of writing and sailing. I still am a Zen Buddhist and still practicing my cushion-sitting, of course, but I will now branch out this blog to more varied pursuits.
The Zen poet Daito (1282-1334) captured the feeling of my re-newed direction when he wrote: "It's over, the 'buddhas and patriarchs' disease that once gripped my chest. Now I'm just an ordinary man. With a clean slate."
So true. I am an ordinary man with a clean slate.
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