Be realistic —
Give up your designs on life.
It has its own plan.
Inevitable —
Yet so unnecessary!
Enough suffering.
The final lesson.
Cannot postpone forever;
learned now or never.
Whose idea was this?
It certainly wasn’t mine —
Perhaps it is yours?
How to think Design?
Nothing is sep’rate in it —
Nothing excluded!
How to design Zen?
No need to redesign it —
It is already!
Perfectly nat’ral,
A sitting tetrahedron —
Equilibrium!
It is laugh or cry —
the tragedy of humans
in hormonal rage.
Falling through a curve —
Sum total of all forces…
Zen’s “total function”!
Such a lovely world —
if it weren’t for the people!
Let’s get rid of them.
Dharma trumps karma
but it is not an escape —
Consequences come
The Four Spheres are real —
as real as anything else —
but temporary
I may not be done —
my race may be almost run —
not yet... not yet... not...
It’s all personal —
but entangled seamlessly
with universal
He was the great sage
who said no need for zazen —
if you grasp the truth
It’s not that simple.
But it helps to simplify —
at least in your mind.
What is a system?
It has inside and outside —
all dharma beings.
Discovery now.
Invention follows later —
in Design or Zen.
Process is the thing —
Outcomes only the result —
Some tweaking required