Sometimes after finishing a book, I like to commemorate the occasion with a small poem. The book was Zen Comments on the Mumonkan by Zenkei Shibayama. Some of what I found therein inspired unexpected insights.

After Reading the Mumonkan

just a single stroke
black paint presents a circle
the empty center
wider than the pacific
reveals and obstructs the way

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