Is this a Buddhist poem?
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My heart goes out to him. I wish I could sit with him. There'd be no need to meditate. Maybe I could make him a cup of tea.
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I've read that Ryokan strived very hard to be identified neither as a poet, nor as a monk nor as anyone special. I wonder if an examination of his intentions isn't slipping away from this moment into judgment of the unknown. How can anyone know what he thought or meant - I can hardly comment on the intentions of people I meet everyday in my life, let alone of someone I've never met.
Sometimes I read things I wrote a few years ago, and I wonder to myself, what was I thinking, and I say, it doesn't really matter.
Does anyone stand up to an examination of all their utterances?
Where beauty is, then there is ugliness; where right is, also there is wrong. Knowledge and ignorance are interdependent; delusion and enlightenment condition each other. Since olden times it has been so. How could it be otherwise now? Wanting to get rid of one and grab the other is merely realizing a scene of stupidity. Even if you speak of the wonder of it all, how do you deal with each thing changing?
-Ryokanο»Ώ ο»Ώ
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I think you are confounding Buddhist principles with Japanese culture - of which veneration of the dead is an important part. If there is one thing you can say about Buddhism, it's that it doesn't exist in a vacuum and often takes on the cultural customs of its practitioners.
Besides, it's a poem. He's trying to capture a moment for an audience, not make a statement about the dharma. ;-)
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