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Every month, 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 Kasiando (Founders’ Room). On this page you will find the poem read at the last Founders’ Service.
Dharma Words
Parinirvana Day, 2010
Great Shining Awakened One
We come before you once again
Here on Great Dragon Mountain
On this Parinirvana Day
We bow in deepest reverence.
Born in Kapilavastu
Awakening in Magadha
Teaching in Varanasi:
Twenty Four Hundred and Seventy One Years
Have passed since You entered Your Final Nirvana
In Kusinagara.
In the realm of coming and going
May we realize No-coming and No-going.
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Heal us, help us, one and all, to wake up
To awaken all beings everywhere,
To appreciate this very life itself, as it truly is.
Beneath the moon, ten thousand lotus blossoms bloom.
May great Wisdom fall on all, like rain
May great Compassion shine on all, like the sun
On the great earth,
Warming and healing
This wounded world.
February 14,2010
By Sensei Daishin Buksbazen
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