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![LEGACYBrings a new level of interactivity to our services and helps propagate the Way of Oneness across the world.Legacy Information Brochure now availableSummarizes what the Legacy is all about in a nutshell. The brochure is printed on a skyblue trifold with white cloudbackground that conveys the vastness of a constantly changing sky symbolizing the suchness of life.Legacy Ambassador Brochure now availableEveryone is invited to be an “Ambassador” for the Legacy. Copies of this Brochure can be provided for you togive to interested relatives and friends. Let’s share the Dharma!Heartland Sangha Buddhist ServicesTo be held on the first and third Saturdays at Lake Street Church, 607 Lake Street, Evanston, Illinois. 10am Media-tion and 11am Family Service (children welcomed); Sponsored by Heartland Sangha. Rev. Koyo Kubose will give]NEWSThe shrineIn the sacred grove:A cool wind blows.ChoraThere is something pure andholy about the cool wind thatblows through the forest. Itcomes from the unknown. Itscoolness calms the spirit; thesound has a meaning beyondwords or silence.The voice of the bell,As it leaves the bell, —The coolness!BusonIt is a warm, a sultry evening,and cold, night and day, deathand life, are one. The eveningsounding stroke. At that mo-ment of timeless time, Busonis no longer hot, he is not-hot.pressed as “coolness.” Thethe moment (of non-hotness)chief work is to express thisemotion of eternity recollectedin his time of tranquillity.I have nothing at all, —But this tranquillity!This coolness!IssaThe only difficulty here is topoint out wherein lies the po-the fact of the identity of the“nothing at all,” and the “tran-ing and desiring nothing, he istranquil in mind, and the cool-ness is not one merely of thethermometer, yet it is deeplyphysical.This cool breezeThrough the summerroom, —But still complainingIssaIssa is not grumbling at thegrumbler. To want, to desire,of our nature, is part of oursire that decides whether weare a Buddha or an ordinaryman. It is not grumbling, buthow guishes man from the loweranimals is the very thing thatdegrades him below them.The cool breezeFills the empty vault ofheavenWith the voice of thepine-tree.OnitsuraWhich is it makes the sound,empty space warm or cool?The region of the poem is notdifferent from that of these— not the logical or purely in-tellectual answer, but the an-swer that willy-nilly we have toaccept. If you are in the stateof mind to accept the answerwillingly, life accomplishes itsultimate and only object, to belived.Haiku poems and commentary arefrom “Haiku, Volume 3, Summer-Autumn” by R.H. Blyth; HokuseidoPress, 1952.Views ofSUMMER](./L_Files/background3.png)
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— but not to God, to whom hot
bell is suddenly heard, one re-
This state of not-hotness is ex-
great difficulty in life is to catch
as it flies; for the poet also, his
etry of this verse. It consists in
quillity” and “coolness.” In hav-
is human, is thus divine, is part
Buddha nature. It is how we de-
we grumble. What distin-
the pine-tree or the breeze? Is
questions, the answer to them,
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