{"id":23,"date":"2011-09-22T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2011\/09\/your-spiritual-foot-work-must-be-light-two-poems\/"},"modified":"2011-09-22T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:45:00","slug":"your-spiritual-foot-work-must-be-light-two-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2011\/09\/your-spiritual-foot-work-must-be-light-two-poems.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Spiritual Foot Work Must Be Light: Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TmerSk9RzA8\/TnvT6n66cJI\/AAAAAAAABlY\/VN96x3a-vYA\/s1600\/wave+sound\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-TmerSk9RzA8\/TnvT6n66cJI\/AAAAAAAABlY\/VN96x3a-vYA\/s400\/wave+sound\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>On the way to work, I listened to an old Katagiri Roshi talk on Dogen\u2019s <i>Baika (Plum Blossoms) <\/i>and found a few gems.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: black\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>First, Roshi stumbled around trying to remember a poem. \u201cYou know,\u201d he said, \u201c<i>the <\/i>19th Century French poet.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: black\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>One of his listeners immediately said, \u201cRimbaud.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: black\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Clearly, there were more poets in France in the 19th Century \u2026 but here\u2019s the poem:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style='color: black;font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'><\/div>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'> <\/span><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>                                                                    It has been found again. <br>What? \u2013 Eternity. <br>It is the [sound of the] sea fled away <br>With the sun.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Roshi\u2019s translation had the <\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>[sound of the] <\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>part that I don\u2019t find in any online translations. Don\u2019t know about the French but I like that twist.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Then there\u2019s what follows that <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>isn\u2019t a poem <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Roshi intended to write \u2013 just his way of talking<span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Total manifestation of life \u2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><br><i><span style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'> <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Tree in the garden.<\/span><\/span><\/i><br><i><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Total manifestation of death \u2013<\/span><\/span><\/i><br><i><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Winter in Minnesota.<\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Roshi also did a free association on how boxing and Zen were alike. \u201cNot the punching,\u201d he said, \u201cbut just like in boxing, foot work is very important. 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