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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Silently A Flower Blooms

This week I attended the ENY-ACRL regional conference of ASSOCIATION of COLLEGE
& RESEARCH LIBRARIES held in Hamilton, New York at COLGATE UNIVERSITY.
While on campus I visited CHAPEL HOUSE. There I discovered this poem written by
a former Chapel House guest, Abbot Zenkei Shibayama Roshi of NANZENJI MONASTERY
in Kyoto, JAPAN.


SILENTLY A FLOWER BLOOMS


In silence it falls away;
Yet here now, at this moment, at this place,
the whole of the flower, the whole of the world
is blooming.
This is the talk of the flower, the truth of
the blossom
The glory of eternal life is shining here.