Taitetsu Unno (1929–2014), renowned Shin Buddhist scholar, reflected comprehensively on the role of religious belief in our era
religious belief
A Bond
As lemongrass holds the river’s first shimmer of morning light, you possessme. Drifting in the marsh, my fingertips dipping in the water, like a luminous blue god, you have become an idea that I can no longer doubt without proving my devotion. Yes,you hold me, you hold me, you hold me as wood holds the frame of a house, […]
Bow & Be
ThatToo Timeless&Newborn CaperingThrough What loveCan leave on those Traces of Earth EnduringThe rivers and All that May be true Maybe.My whole past, too. My heart.The lost part Of the brain.Cutting like a Samurai’s sword Touching the grassOr taking off a tight shoe Death the wayRam Dass felt it.
Conversion
Wild and silent asthe desert of an arcticlandscape, the one eventthat never happens the wayit is supposed to.
Surrendering
(Inspired by Dr. Wayne Dyer) We must remember the good. So much of it is worth remembering. A garage where we park our souls. Weighing the life we live andwhat it leaves behind. We must get back into the meditation.A path that you can be on if you just let go of the need to go […]