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Créer, c’est vivre deux fois.
To create is to live twice.—Albert Camus
I cannot NOT create
something in me
demands it
and to create
I must listen
as I learned
while in Japan
studying, sitting,
learning to be still.
I practiced zazen
in local temples to
carry the practice
with me to Hawaii,
counting one breath
after another
at nearly 80
無常
ἐφήμερος**
I still
sit
as effort
became
effortless
to flow
like water
through
languages
countries
cultures
religions
only to
let go
* 上智大学 (Jochi Daigaku ) is a Jesuit University in Tokyo, Japan–called Sophia University in English.
** 無常（むじょう・mujō) in Japanese is impermanence, the Buddhist concept that all things are transient, which is not a direct translation but philosophically identical to the more profound sense of ἐφήμερος.
ἐφήμερος, Greek for “ephemeral,” carries a philosophical or poetic nuance that human life is fleeting.
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In zazen, leave both front & back doors open so thoughts can come & go. Just don’t serve them tea!
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