NOWZEN HAIKU

BY

ZENMASTER JAY

A.K.A. CHRISTOPHER JAY LAMB

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Not grasping right now

Simply reflecting it well
Mind like a mirror

A world of free spirits

Shaping our experience
Drawing on our soul

The yin and the yang

All concepts have compliments
Just the way it is

ZENMASTER JAY II
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The truth is the truth

It is the way it is, so…
This world can appear

See mind by not seeing

Eye that sees can’t see itself
Oh well… never mind

No hesitation
Means you don’t think twice about
What’s going on right now

ZENMASTER JAY III

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Who we really are

Has no beginning or end
This is beyond words

Counting on numbers
Like flying without the wing
Only leads to letdown

It is up to you
Worldly goals lead to sorrow
So what is worldly?

ZENMASTER JAY IV
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Set up your treasure

In the heaven that’s right now
Composites perish

When you want the truth

Like the air that you do breathe
Then you will have it

All imaginable
Disease is everywhere
And so is the cure

ZENMASTER JAY V
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Once upon a time…

Do you know how to get off?
Without dying first?

Backwards and forwards

Is only for the people
Thinking they’re going

Make your monkey mind

One pointed singularity
Encompassing all

ZENMASTER JAY VI
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Can you picture this...

The trap and the one who’s trapped
Are one and the same

Learning begets doubt

The way, the truth, and the life
Simply everywhere

Words like a finger

That is pointing at the moon
Tao called Tao ain’t Tao

ZENMASTER JAY VII

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We make this moment

With tools of past and future
This is the reason

One who knows don’t speak

The one who speaks does not know
Speak for the speechless

You are what you eat

Focus makes our reality
This is what that means

ZENMASTER JAY VIII

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This thing that we do

Perform again and again
Means identity

Illusions are real

To the one who is dreaming
All you can do is…

You can fix what’s broke

And you can break what’s fixed
The fixless endures

ZENMASTER JAY IX
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Mind over matter

It is written in the stars
Like mass makes matter

Every mind is a world

Where ever you go there you are
Make no excuses

Is this good or bad

The perfect way is only hard
For those who choose

ZENMASTER JAY X
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Reincarnation
Karma and evolution
No basis in truth

Form is formlessness
Causation not necessary
Formlessness is form

People grow old and die

Because they see others do it
Who is your master?

ZENMASTER JAY XI
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Giving your power

To life or the story of…
The bed that you make

True words make no point

True lovers are not discreet
True love everywhere

Can you imagine…

Your original face is…
Really everyone’s

ZENMASTER JAY XII

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Gift of eternity
Don’t wait another moment
This present is now!

I can tell you why

Heaven is now or never
But can you see why

Hell is to desire
Some other moment than this
Unlimited one

ZENMASTER JAY XIII

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What really exists

Inside this moment present
Could be anything!

The future is what

Happened to the past which is
Almost going to

Perspectives do change
What’s the future and what’s past
Depends on the view

ZENMASTER JAY XIV

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There can be but one

Only the truth can remain
Constant change is here

Wisdom is a broom
Held over the heart and mind
Are you swept away?

Danger is a risk
And an opportunity
Relatively speaking

ZENMASTER JAY XV
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When you see a chance

To free this worldly romance
You choose to do so?

The student’s ready

And the master has arrived
Big happy family

The rules of the game

For one who knows the true self
They do not apply

ZENMASTER JAY XVI

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The end always comes

Amidst doubt and confusion
Where ego begins

This very moment

There are no limitations
One hand is clapping

Of what is the light?

When one dreams, how are they lit?
Light of the one mind

ZENMASTER JAY XVII

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All things seek their end

Where they do find their meaning
Lib… liberation

Peace is in the truth

Seek to follow in no one’s steps
May peace be with you

Watch close what you see

Spirits dancing in the soul
This significance

ZENMASTER JAY XVIII

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World weary am I…
It sure is a good thing that
Heaven is right here

The great martial art…

To express the truth you know
Just being yourself

Follow any path

With truest of devotion
You’re already there

ZENMASTER JAY XIX

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In your heart and world

Breathe the source of the universe
It’s your sustenance!

Love is always in
To leave something out is fear
In and out reflect

Fundamentally
This is what happens at death…
Really… I mean it…now

ZENMASTER JAY XX
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Do not strain yourself

Life, death, just concepts in flux
In every moment

Cruising in this life car

Shiny wheels are in motion
And then they fall off

Enlightenment
Progress is an illusion
…we’ve always been there

ZENMASTER JAY XXI

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With things on our mind

We’re led by dreams within dreams
We must be dreaming

Master your own mind

And fear not thy own shadow
Receive… do not grasp

There just is no need

Reach for it and you will miss
Let loose… it follows

ZENMASTER JAY XXII

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No wonder I gaze so often

At truth from a world of illusion
What could be more beautiful?

I just can’t place it

It’s all so original
Mystical mystery

Things are relative

Nothing is absolute
Be the absolute

ZENMASTER JAY XXIII

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Please do not suffer

From all there names and words around
Making the world go’ round

You see love’s the key

Found in truth, to be set free
Love is the answer

Now slip into this…

Always is and never was
Relax… just in time

ZENMASTER JAY XXIV

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Polluting the mind

The ill communication
You already know

Beating drums of peace

Patriotic infantry
Disturb the peaceful

Inside the boxes

Of our new world paradigm
Where is my I pod?

ZENMASTER JAY XXV

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Whom does all this serve?

While this all just comes to pass…
We are the one mind

You can rest assured

The reason that we are living
Just what we’re doing

Return to nature
Don’t stay inside these four walls
Been to Hawaii?

ZENMASTER JAY XXVI

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Superstitious ness
Comes from not deeply knowing
The source of power

Awareness arrives
Infinity is everywhere
Planets are just planes

What a world this is

Illusion at every turn
Yet so is reality

ZENMASTER JAY XXVII

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All must come to pass

So why cry over spilt milk?
There are lots of cats

The core of samsara

Lust, hatred, and ignorance
Tripods need all legs

Stay clear, so sage says

All things in moderation
Even moderation

ZENMASTER JAY XXVIII

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Like a good days work

Can bring you a peaceful rest
Life to afterlife

The truth can shine now

That my world’s out of the way
It was there all along

Make your own weather

Exertion overcomes cold
Calmness beats the heat

ZENMASTER JAY XXIX

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Every where’s the center

Of the universe and life
The air that you breathe

Don’t you know it’s true?

The one you love is everywhere
Unconditional

Nothing left to lose

That’s when it all could be yours
The beauty of it

ZENMASTER JAY XXX

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The truth is right now

Anything is possible
It’s always right now!

The future and past

Can only be this moment
You can see right through…

All the mind is

Two mirrors reflect each other
Perfect mind a mirror

ZENMASTER JAY XXXI

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There’s just this one thing

Every single thing is just one mind
All do know this way

The deepest ground is

The highest elevation
So… can you dig it?

Wishing to attain
Just makes it stand in the way
And that is o.k.

ZENMASTER JAY XXXII

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The mind that thinks

Is not different at all from
The mind that knows

Letting go what’s going

And letting come what’s coming
This is what grace is

Never nearer the light

Than when the dark is deepest
This infinite womb

ZENMASTER JAY XXXIII

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Waking up just means

That for real you are dreaming
Just let it all go

Mind is a black hole

With an event horizon
Have an open mind…

Stars communicate
The universe is alive
Starlight communion

ZENMASTER JAY XXXIV

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The ultimate is
Letting all our moments be
Just that which they are

If you sit…just sit

And then if you stand… just stand
Just do not wobble

Thin ice on a lake

Politeness amidst company
And here comes the sun!

ZENMASTER JAY XXXV

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Out to see the sights

Plucking petals from flowers
You can’t gather beauty

The smell of dirt

In concrete jungle landscapes
The people don’t know

A very blank stare

The mind that only knows the world
Is just fine actually

ZENMASTER JAY XXXVI

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Cut away excess

Know when enough is enough
It’s always enough

Walking in the rain

Autumn leaves float down the street
A car splashes me!

Nothing ever moves

Rivers know not where they flow
Nor we where we go

ZENMASTER JAY XXXVII

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To smell the roses

I like riding bicycles
Even that’s too fast!

Appointments are made

Know why moments are fleeting?
They have places to go

It takes a soft touch

Appreciate what it is
Forget about it

ZENMASTER JAY XXXVIII

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Just sitting around

Writing all these little poems
And my cat pets me

Breaking all the rules

When setting higher standards
Later they say hoo-ray

Better come correct

Women like the universe
Only get one chance

ZENMASTER JAY XXXIX

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Do people make kids

Or do kids make people
Imagination

No hope for the senses

They’re wallowing in their mud
Are you up the creek?

World cops on war paths

And there is no way to peace
But peace is the way

ZENMASTER JAY XL
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Fortified food stuff

Religions for the masses
Control the people

The most sacred space

This place untainted by man
A gem in the rough

Just washing your bowl

The inaction in action
This is simple mind

ZENMASTER JAY XLI

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Waking to bird song

The gaze of the beautiful
A very good sign

Dark clouds hang overhead

Thinking about things to come
Welcome to graceland

The names come and go

No need to worry about
Staying anywhere

ZENMASTER JAY XLII

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Quit while you’re ahead

When the pen runs out of ink
You’ll say that it’s fate

You’ve too many words

There’s a self for every thing
You talk to your self

Kids too young to speak

Black cats with two white whiskers
Smile knowingly

ZENMASTER JAY XLIII

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Find penny pick her up

All day long you’ll have good luck
Unless you’re on tails

Merry go round hell

Habit ridden consciousness
Running in circles

The socialized mind

Removed from intuition
Here’s my cell number

ZENMASTER JAY XLIV

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Careful what you wish

When the floodgates are opened
What’s left is your life

Is your labor of love

Do you work or do you toil
Can’t wait to finish

Here in the show biz

We all like happy endings
They make us money

ZENMASTER JAY XLV

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This is official
I am the authority
Nothing to question

A big hairy ape

Strolling through the lingerie
Opposites attract

I like to frequent
Secret corners of the world
You might not know of

ZENMASTER JAY XLVI

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This is your story

Judging books by their covers
Then call it reading

What you just don’t know

You don’t have to understand
You already do

Sometimes I am awake
But sometimes I like to sleep
Life in the twilight

ZENMASTER JAY XLVII

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How is it going?
No… really… I do mean it…
How’s it that it goes?

Always when traveling

People ask me where I’m from
Center’s everywhere

Going on memory
Anything is effortless
Once the groove is made

ZENMASTER JAY XLVIII

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The sun in the sky…

Just a reflection of the…
Moon on the water!

Cool dew in the air

A smile on a fair maiden
Sure signs of spring

With nothing to say

There’s no reason left to cry
About words going away

ZENMASTER JAY XLIX

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If you understand
The cycle of addiction
You understand mind

Woman is the word

And man is the reason
I speak

In these soft round worlds

All shot up with asteroids
The dream of a woman

ZENMASTER JAY L
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And it’s all the same

This is when it comes to truth
Progress…illusion

Beauty of music
Like life, you’ve got to flow with…
To appreciate

Get off to be on
Beauty begins with ugliness
Dynamic balance

ZENMASTER JAY LI
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Just reverse your thoughts

See that the outside is in
It’s all in your head

It’s raining garbage

Right here on your evening news
Such nice packaging

Fuel for the rat race

We’ve streamlined your pleasure
Consumer science

ZENMASTER JAY LII

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All things are on fire

Spontaneous combustion
The speed of space dust

Acceleration
Traversing the dimensions
The essence of fire

Such an ugly thing

With not a hair out of place
The other side calling

ZENMASTER JAY LIII

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For better or for worse

The stewards of the planet
Anthropocentric

Without waking them…

How can you tell the sleeping…
You snooze and you lose?

Gotten city-eyzed
So let’s get back to nature
Love it or leave it

ZENMASTER JAY LIV

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Something fun to do
Like dropping the other shoe
The tack at hand done

Create a new day

Imagine the beautiful
All goes its’ own way

Tab A to slot B
Taking care of business
Insert your name here

ZENMASTER JAY LV
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So industrial
Economy stimulated
Fire, kings, and women

Short end of the stick

On the other side of the coin
No correlation

Just stop making sense

Logic must be attended
Free to speak freely

ZENMASTER JAY LVI

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So symbiotic
The way this mating game works
Reciprocating

Change needs a constant

And the constant is a dream
And so is the change

The customary
This so called reality
Dreamland… say hello!

ZENMASTER JAY LVII

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Taking it all in
Is like letting it all go
Just relax and breathe

They say déjà vu

Means that you’re on the right track
Nature is calling

Death is illusion
It’s always in the future
Dying to know this

ZENMASTER JAY LVIII

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Ways of the wayward

They send you this way and that
Now is where Zen is!

Whole spectrum is right here

World’s bright or dim as you see
What a view it is

A ride for a song

Structure of the universe
Harmony machine

ZENMASTER JAY LIX

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Ask for what you want

When you are sure what it is
Then you can have it

Flying carpet rides

Use your imagination
And then you can go

Want misperceives lack

What you want you can not have
Just because you want

ZENMASTER JAY LX
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Ego wants to choose

So you set limitations
To try to get around

You can’t win them all

Unless you know how to lose
Without finding loss

Manifestation
It’s a miraculous thing
Not run by mating games

ZENMASTER JAY LXI

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Take it or leave it
Love it or leave it behind
Use it or lose it

It is everywhere
You see everything from here
Universal center

Separate self not real

Illness is an illusion
Healer… heal thyself!

ZENMASTER JAY LXII

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You can change your mind

All is one and one is all
My favorite flavor

Been desensitized?
Regain sensitivities…
Just get out of touch

If you lose your mind

Without losing reality
You have found yourself

ZENMASTER JAY LXIII

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All is the unknown

Comfortable with the mystery
That is pure genius

Not flattered by praise

Nor being hurt by the blame
Watch closely… you’ll see

Very grave matter

Time is perceiving passing
Death synonymous

ZENMASTER JAY LXIV

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What does all this mean?

You can return to the root
And find the meaning

When it comes to life

Zero gravity rules…man
Gravid means pregnant

Words have resonance

Mean one thing to intellect
Another to soul

ZENMASTER JAY LXV

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You will lose your mind

If you try to figure it out
And that’s a good thing

An infinite spark
Lights the entire universe
Shade is as shade does

Just one moment there

Can set you free forever
Here is where it’s at

ZENMASTER JAY LXVI

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Goddess universe
She seems to come near
Only in your dreams

Higher in heavens
Congruity of macro and micro
Deeper underground

By the grace of God

It’s ordered… it’s a miracle
Don’t trip on the word

ZENMASTER JAY LXVII

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We are not human

And not other than human
Don’t have to get it

Possessions posses
The one who tries to control
Inevitably

God is love’s body

An unconditional love
Love is God’s mind

ZENMASTER JAY LXVIII

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All the words I’ve found

Better not to speak of words
You can’t see right through

With no circumference
Center can be anywhere
One sided circle

All transportation
Really teleportation
In infinite eyes

ZENMASTER JAY LXIX

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Knowing is flowing
Meditation is right now
Just go with the flow

Never know ‘till you go

Should you stay or should you go
But can you come back?

There’s no going back

There’s no continuity
But the perception

ZENMASTER JAY LXX

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There is a constant
The self that is your true self
But it is selfless

With no peace of mind

All that’s known is suffering
Peace is the true way

The one that you love

Is most truly everywhere
Writing on the wall

ZENMASTER JAY LXXI

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Once it’s seen one way

You have to re-mind yourself
To see any other

I guess you could say

When it all comes together
The project is done

All the world a stage

None of us are just actors
But the stage as well

ZENMASTER JAY LXXII

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We’re superhuman
This world is our kryptonite
That makes us human

Where is your head at?

Home is where the heart is…
Infinite abode

When you choose to live

Not in funeral processions
That’s when you’ll find me

ZENMASTER JAY LXXIII

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The whole universe

Every single one of us
Is the only one

The way of being

Beyond and before it all
Is this… right here… now

Bring your mind over here

Before you go over there
May you go in peace

ZENMASTER JAY LXXIV

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Reaching for heavens

Like they’re outside of yourself
Just brings forth more earth

Letting it be so
Doing just as it pleases
Don’t worry… you’ll get it

Want more freedom?

There is limited freedom
Amidst more choices

ZENMASTER JAY LXXV

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Here in the first place

Desire to exist or not to…
Exactly the same.

Birds of a feather
Why do crowds attract crowds?
Because like finds like

All is finished
…for only the trying is left
completely undone

ZENMASTER JAY LXXVI

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Dispel your spellings

Break free… see the otherside
You like to ignore

Where can it be
Can’t live with or without it
Chasing my own tail

Breaking the cycle

Only determines…
The revolution

ZENMASTER JAY LXXVII

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The genesis paradox…

Can something come from nothing?
Refer to yin yang

They know no sorrow

Letting it be as it is
Like leaves falling

Don’t forget who you are

And you’ll never have to have
Just half the story

ZENMASTER JAY LXXVIII

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Formalities… fine
All that which the course is for
Let true nature shine

Taken to the brink

Of total oblivion
Your word awaits you

All things do revolve

Around one thing and nothing
Go for… all… or nothing

ZENMASTER JAY LXXIX

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Try to be someone?
Be with all or you will be
Nothing at all

See if you can see

That there is no such thing as…
Anything… you see

No person or place
Thus come all things in season
Original face

ZENMASTER JAY LXXX

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Right, wrong, left, right

Every single thing is just
Held by the one mind

Thus all things are like

Waves to ocean, clouds to sky
Opinions to mind

Found your own way here

Enlightenment does not care
How you get there

ZENMASTER JAY LXXXI

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Do you want the truth?

And the peace that goes with it?
Then look no further

Here we go again
Our lives like falling leaves
Forever rising

Go where you do please

With the one who is everywhere
Via con Dios

ZENMASTER JAY LXXXII

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So obvious it’s hidden

Where you always go is where
You always have been

The running water

Never thinking twice about
Where it is going

When all things pass away

You shall see that all things
Have always been here

ZENMASTER JAY LXXXIII

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Which way shall you go?

All roads lead to the same place
Here! …all things begin.

This place… dreams were made

Built to burn yet never fade
Dreaming in twilight

Living in your dreams

And then dreaming in your life
This creates the strife

ZENMASTER JAY LXXXIV

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Voice is your spirit

Speak your mind ‘till you lose it
Then you’ll find your soul

The birthplace of right

Is the deeming of the wrong
The realm of the flesh

Life technology
This mind works just like magic
Tech no logical

ZENMASTER JAY LXXXV

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Our premonitions
Ability to learn is culture
Paradigm patterns

The truth does not change

Nor does it make change occur
All things in accord

Where do they come from?

The colors of the rainbow…
Never fade in the mind

ZENMASTER JAY LXXXVI

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To venture is to gain
And then to gain is to lose
No matter what… they say

The one who is alive

Is from the one who is dead
How do you figure?

The true way of life

Is to give way to all ways
Always… forever

ZENMASTER JAY LXXXVII

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A flower in the morning sun

Does not insist on knowing
Before it will open

So close to the truth

Sitting near devotedly
Like heaven on earth

Please don’t confuse

What’s real and what’s illusion
To an end… confusion

ZENMASTER JAY LXXXVIII

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Until you can trust

In what can not be trusted
With all your heart

Sooner or later
All the heavens and the earth
These things come and go

It’s right over there!

See what I’m pointing at here?
Neither here nor there

ZENMASTER JAY LXXXIX

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Hunger in the valley

There is plenty up on high
Living in a black hole

Hungry ghost is lacking

It’s connection with the sky
Don’t ask when… or why

Here is where you’ll be

That glorious day when you
Awake from these dreams

ZENMASTER JAY XC
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The most obvious

Just seems hidden because it
Never goes away

The nature of light

Is the mind of which it’s made
With respect to the soul

You have the strength to…

Realize your truest desire
And put out the fire

ZENMASTER JAY XCI

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The winds of change

Are blown out and by
Pure light of reason

This is what you do…

Perceive the anticipated
And then call it now

Better off this way

To the best of your knowledge
Worse things could happen

ZENMASTER JAY XCII

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The chasms below

And the great heavens above
They’re always open

Double yellow lines

And all these troubled waters
They’re made for crossing

What does the wind say

When you cut down all the trees
No air left to breathe

ZENMASTER JAY XCIII

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Round and round it goes

Where it stops, nobody knows
Wheels sure are pretty

With nothing in mind

The art flows from the heart
With beauty in the eye

Without a doubt and…

Without an education
Are one and the same

ZENMASTER JAY XCIV

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To identify
A self and an other is
Misidentification

Whom encounters whom

You just can’t tell the difference
Truth be known… and shown

Clouds will form in skies

And rain will fall where fires burn
Coming down to earth

ZENMASTER JAY XCV

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Bring your mind to this

A thing which it can not grasp
The mind itself

Walking on hot coals

Sleeping on a bed of nails
Make your own wisdom

It all fits somehow

Everything is connected
Like I said… one mind

ZENMASTER JAY XCVI

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Gone with the program

They are afraid of the free
Once fear settles in

Down the rabbit hole…

It’s a trip to the unknown
Goes on forever

A drop in the ocean

And ocean into the drop
Thanks to infinite

ZENMASTER JAY XCVII

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To think for yourself

So few know how anymore
To even think at all

Without controlling
It can all be as you wish
If you just let go

Isn’t it ironic
Between us and our truest desire
Stand only ourselves

ZENMASTER JAY XCVIII

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And what do you know…

Worlds from where thoughts do gather
Where does that leave us?

Come this way with me

All things within each other
No way out is free

Without exports
The relatively important
Takes care of itself

ZENMASTER JAY XCIX

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You’re getting closer

When you find the one you love
Also in yourself

Life goes by too fast

Also by too slow for want
Of the deathlessness

The most time there is

Fits into the least moment
Time just warps the mind

ZENMASTER JAY C
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Waves are a time warp

Nothing is moving at all
All is still… moving

Like dust in the wind

It just takes two to tango
The whole world appears

Who deems what is what?

I’d like to tell you it’s I…
But really it’s us

ZENMASTER JAY CI
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Wanting to be done
And yet not wanting to be
Makes for quite a fix

This is the challenge

To know the unknowable…
Be impossible

This is without doubt

And it makes me wonder
But not confused

ZENMASTER JAY CII

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Which one do you like?

The one you choose will show you
That they’re all the same

The only thing holding

The human potential back
Is what we call human

This we call earth…

The wind in the change afoot
This fire of desire

ZENMASTER JAY CIII

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The air you breathe

Does not come from outside you
If you only knew

It’s funny isn’t it…

That the less you break the rules
The more you forget you can!

Grimace for greeting

Coloring inside the lines
Pretty much status quo

ZENMASTER JAY CIV

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Seen the shoppers lately?

So much grimacing going on
Future must look grim

No objective world
You might call it translating
Interpretation

Carrot hung from head

There are infinite layers
To this existence

ZENMASTER JAY CV
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Pain pales compared to

Longing for another moment…
This is suffering

Fear not and go forth

When the dark is the deepest
You are in the light

‘Till the end of time

Beauty is anesthesia
Use it wisely

ZENMASTER JAY CVI

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I can tell you why

Right now… but the how
Would take forever

The foolish desires

Serve as guiding lights and rails
For those on the way

An all time illusion

Like it’s taken us eons
In just one instant

ZENMASTER JAY CVII

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Are you getting lost?

Keeping up appearances
Substance out of touch

That is what you get

Mixing divine and mundane
Story of my life

Our cherished sayings

Contain deepest of wisdom
From our point of view

ZENMASTER JAY CVIII

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Hot for impulsive

Cold for deliberate
That’s the way it goes

Do unto others
Show respect where respect is due
Takes one to know one

Grass always greener

Like a free world over there…
Or so I hear

ZENMASTER JAY CIX

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Here, there, everywhere

The path that no one goes down
The one we are all on

The mind is a cage

Those with thoughts yet not thinking
They are free to go

This life and the next

Virtues create events
The way that we are

ZENMASTER JAY CX
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Behind the scenes

What does not make any sense
Is just that which does

Doing it justice
Just what I’m talking about
I just can not say

What’s real and what’s not

By a thin line you’ve been caught
Dream and dreamer alike

ZENMASTER JAY CXI

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A timeless practice
Dispelling ignorance
Is a full time job

It’s nice to know

That forgetting is the way
To really know

Another way of
Interpreting your self
All by your self

ZENMASTER JAY CXII

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Death… the entering

Into life... is the exit
Ultimate playground!

The experiences of life

Are the paint on the canvas
Of life itself

Universally speaking
The verb, the noun, and the pronoun
Are one

ZENMASTER JAY CXIII

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Make way for the king!

How do I know who he is?
The last one standing

The color and the shape

Like death just a perception
Just find what forms them

It all has a use

All happens for a reason
From man to woman

ZENMASTER JAY CXIV

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Lead horses to water

But you can not make them drink
The fountain of youth

How to create it
The stuff that dreams are made of
Visualization

When all’s said and done

No one left to care about
What the score is

ZENMASTER JAY CXV

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ZENMASTER JAY CXVI