The word of zen:
However thick a bamboo grove is, a stream is free to flow through it.
However high a mountain is, a white cloud is free to drift over it.
A garden gate in Tokei-ji.
Komusō, Japanese mendicant monks, characterized by the straw baskets worn over their heads while playing Japanese flutes (known as shakuhachi) during the collection of alms. Photograph by Julian Cochrane (1904).
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi
Paul Cézanne, The Big Pine Tree (1890-1895)
An old pine tree can teach you the sacred truths. ~Zen Proverb, Kosho Hannya Wo Danzu
