Just a begging bowl

Ryokan, the old big useless fool, writer of cheap poetry and wanderer in both worlds, this one and the next, writes: Violets and dandelions mixed together in my beggar's bowl are offered to all the buddhas Manifest here, there and everywhere   Broken bowls, begging bowls, that's what we are. Nothing special, nobody special. Takuhatsu is the action of going begging in the streets, floating away in this fleeting world, things given and received, but who gives, who receives? In the light of the sad events of the past few weeks, Let's take a look at this bowl. gassho Taigu Visit the forum thread here!