Zen of Trump

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko, translated by Donald Keene

72

"Things which seem in poor taste: too many personal effects cluttering up the place where one is sitting; too many brushes in an ink-box; too many Buddhas in a family temple; too many stones and plants in a garden; too many children in a house; too many words on meeting someone; too many meritorious deeds recorded in a petition.  Things which are not offensive, no matter how numerous: books in a book cart*, rubbish in a rubbish heap."

(*Fuguruma were small carts with shafts, used for moving books.)

Daily Dose

From The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, edited by Richard Finneran

THE WHEEL

THROUGH winter-time we call on spring,
And through the spring on summer call,
And when abounding hedges ring
Declare that winter's best of all;
And after that there's nothing good
Because the spring-time has not come --
Nor know that what disturbs our blood
Is but its longing for the tomb.

A Caricature

Mindful Clerihew

THICH NHAT HANH

Now, don't you fawn
On Thích Nhất Hạnh.
One must not trouble the sage,
As he's already engaged.