"Breathing in, breathing out,
Moving forward, moving back,
Living, dying, coming, going—
Like two arrows meeting in flight,
In the midst of nothingness
Is the road that goes directly
to my true home.

- Gesshu Soko

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I try to find how I can keep going.

For me a huge part of keeping going is to try and change things for the better.

Zen haiku has interesting and stark contrasts between the beauty and the ugly.

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@dharma
@dhamma

I borrow moonlight

for this journey of a

million miles.

— Saikaku, 1738

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