Ryokan, the old big useless fool, writer of cheap poetry and wanderer in both worlds, this one and the next, writes:

Violets and dandelions

mixed together

in my beggar's bowl

are offered to all the buddhas

Manifest here, there and everywhere

 

Broken bowls, begging bowls, that's what we are.

Nothing special, nobody special.

Takuhatsu is the action of going begging in the streets, floating away in this fleeting world, things given and received, but who gives, who receives?

In the light of the sad events of the past few weeks, Let's take a look at this bowl.

gassho

Taigu

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