Eschatological Being

Eschatological Being
Vertical Particularity meets Horizontal Universalities

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Pavilion with a View of the World

 I got this close to Muso Soseki's Henkai Ichirantei, the Pavilion with a View of the World, perched above Zuisenji Temple, where he would sit zazen and share poetry including possibly this verse he composed:


The heavens allowed me
     to settle myself
          on a small piece of land 
Looking into the distance
    digging far down
          I delight in my own freedom
All who come here
   feel the lids fall
         from their eyes
This View of the World 
   without end -  
        there is no where to hide

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