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 the poem read at the last Founders’ Service.

DHARMA WORDS FOR MAEZUMI ROSHI

 

Great Mountain fills space and time;

Solitary Cloud neither comes nor goes.

 

Dear Maezumi Roshi,

Fifteen years ago, the great white blossom

fell without warning. You left to teach in another realm.

The Dharma of Thusness so intimately conveyed:

realizing the one buddha mind seal

moment after moment, day after day,

lifetime after lifetime.

We carry on:

your admonishment to never let the wisdom seed

of the buddhas and ancestors be discontinued

is deeply imprinted in these very bodies

standing here.

Oh, you caused so much trouble for your descendants!

The debt is not yet repaid.

Eee   e     e      e      e        e      e

Each moment of remembering you

is like the clear bright moon of autumn,

the vivid flowers in spring.

 

Your grateful disciple Wako Egyoku

Dairyuzan Busshinji

May 15, 2010 Los Angeles, CA