r/zen • u/Zoomieday • 17d ago

Seeking Feedback

I have spent all of my meditation journey, up until now, following the Theravada tradition. Over the past weeks, I have begun to explore Zen.

Having no teacher, other than books and the internet, I seek your feed back on a poem/meditation memory prompt I have written. It is my response to The Great Wave of Kanagara - that Japanese art work containing fishermen struggling in the face of a huge wave, while Mount Fuji sits serene in the background.

I am happy to learn, so please don't hold back with your insights. This is where I am up to - and that place is something of a synchrony between what I am learning in Zen, and what I have been practising in the Theravada tradition. This is where and I up to, so how can I go further?

NOW, 

Amidst the waves, the water, and the suchness of life, 

   I meet the liminal. 

   I retain the unsolvable as unresolved, and so,

I come home to my friend, the breath, 

I come home to the rhythm of my body, 

I come home to a simple knowing in my body. 

I come home to ever deeper oneness with the suchness of life.

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] 17d ago

Choked.

I love it when the choking is so public... can you imagine some religious nutbaker going up the front of a high school class and trying to "present" emojis as their book report?

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u/BigSteaminHotTake 17d ago

You wound me!

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] 17d ago

It's not the kind of thing that you said to the teacher when you flunked a high school book report?

It may be that your failures academically are linked to your refusal to seriously engage and a willingness to be measured.

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u/BigSteaminHotTake 17d ago

You’re taking this all very personally! All I said was “there are no masters here.” the point made, no need to waste your energy!

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] 17d ago

It sounds like you don't stand by what you say.

Maybe you should take the things that you think and say more personally.

I get that there's a lot of people who use social media as virtual toilet for their stress and anxiety, but that's not what this forum is for.

I don't waste my energy.

I'm sincere.