Piercing The Sky

[OliDoyle]

I just read this poem from Zen Master Dogen. I love it:

"Speech and silence - absolutely the same: extremely subtle and profound.
A good remedy was prescribed a long time ago.
Piercing the sky, embracing the earth - no end to it.
An immense escarpment glowing with mysterious light." Dogen Zenji

My sense:
Speech and silence both arise from the inner place we touch in mindfulness, which is the good remedy prescribed long ago.
In mindfulness we are vast, and there is no end (no beginning either), just this.
And the last line? I can't speak for it, but I love it.

Any thoughts or favourite quotes/poems?

[Gareth]

My favourite mindfulness quote is this:

"Forever is composed of nows." ~ Emily Dickinson

[JonW]

"So much depends
Upon
A red wheelbarrow
Glazed with rainwater
Beside the white chickens."
WC Williams