Rev. Danny Fisher

Today’s quote is from Mitsu Suzuki, wife of the late Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971), one of the great figures in the development of Buddhism in America in the last sixty years.  This is it–three haikus collected in Taigen Dan Leighton’s book Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes & Their Modern Expression:

Disturbing matters continue
I hear bird songs
absent-mindedly.

Clear winter day
sound of waves
solitary life.

Listening to
my grandchild’s love story
I cut a huge melon.