Every month, on the Saturday closest to the 15th (Maezumi Roshi’s death day), we hold a Founders’ Service at ZCLA. During the service, the officiant reads a self-written poem in the Kaisando (Founders’ Room). On this page you will find poems read at a Founders’ Service.

 

Dharma Words for

Taizan Maezumi Roshi

 

offered August 13, 2011

by Sensei John Daishin Buksbazen

Warm breezes on Great Dragon Mountain

Sigh through the redwood trees.

This summer morning we humbly come

To this place of  remembering.

How many lives have grown in this garden?

Oh Roshi, you planter of forests,

You trimmer of trees,

We bow in gratitude for your

Life of cultivating this empty field.

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii !

A lone cloud looks down in silence

On the life of dragons and lions

On this mountain’s peak.

Dharma blossoms unfold

Endlessly.

 

 

For the poem by Sensei Kodo read on May 7, 2011, click here.

For the poem by Sensei Shingetsu read on April 16, 2011, click here.