Encountering the Ancestors: Po Chu'i (part 3 of 3)

Jay Rinsen Weik leads a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on January 25, 2009.On the fifth day after the rise of spring,Everywhere the season's gracious attitudes!The white sun gradually lengthening its course;The blue-gray clouds hanging as though they would fall.The last icicle breaking into splinters of jade;The new stems marshalling red sprouts.The things I meet are full of gladness:It is not only I who love the spring.To welcome the flowers, I stand in the back garden;To enjoy the sunlight, I sit under the front eaves.Yet still in my heart, there lingers one regret:Soon I shall part with the flame of my red stove!--Po Chu'iFor more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.org.