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Self/No Self
Spring 1995   Vol. 11 #2
Spring 1995   Vol. 11 #2

Poems/Not Poems

What a Wonderful World

By Norman Fischer

 
 

What seems separate, weighty, out there

Is actually already dissolved because

The moving into it

Is a giving up of everything

That has already been lost anyway

So it’s easy to do

Everything works together

Even griefs

Nothing more clever

Than the mind to tangle things up in

Without which we couldn’t ever do

Or even ever appear

 

∞

 

From the Spring 1995 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 11, No. 2)
Text © 1995–2020 by

Author

Zoketsu Norman Fischer  is a poet, author and Zen Buddhist priest and abbot. His teachers have been Sojun Weitsman of the Berkeley Zen Center (from whom he received Dharma Transmission in 1988), Zentatsu Baker, Robert Aitken-roshi, Maurine Stuart-roshi, Tara Tulku Rimpoche, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Testugen Glassman-sensei. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation, an organization dedicated to sharing Zen teachings worldwide.  

Author

Zoketsu Norman Fischer  is a poet, author and Zen Buddhist priest and abbot. His teachers have been Sojun Weitsman of the Berkeley Zen Center (from whom he received Dharma Transmission in 1988), Zentatsu Baker, Robert Aitken-roshi, Maurine Stuart-roshi, Tara Tulku Rimpoche, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Testugen Glassman-sensei. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation, an organization dedicated to sharing Zen teachings worldwide.  

 
 
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