Gary Snyder

“If a Bodhisattva retains the thought of an ego, a person, a being, or a soul, he is no more a Bodhisattva.”

            You be Bosatsu,

            I’ll be the taxi-driver

            Driving you home.

The curious multi-stratified metamorphic rock.  Blue and white,

clouds reaching out.  To survive a winter here learn to browse

and live in holes in the rocks under the snow.

Sabi: One does not have a great deal to give.  That which one

does give has been polished and perfected into a spontaneous

emptiness; sterility made creative, it has no pretensions, and

encompasses everything.

                                    Zen view, o.k.?

Cratershan 15 August 1957

Lookout’s Journal

Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold