A Zen cook gets out of the way.
Yes, look! In a Zen cook’s offering to the assembly,
looking everywhere, nowhere to be found is the cook.
And yet how’s so in this and deeply supportive,
continuously reconfigured is the way of Reality
by cause of such, and in profoundest serenity.
How’s so the work of the tenzo.
As Tenzo Hajime, I perform the function of the one
who makes offerings of profoundest serenity
with reverence to the assembly of today. Please. Enjoy!
Teisho GSM5078
Splash Moda Unsui 了解雲水 / Teisho GSM5078
一切合切 “Issai Gassai”
Tenzo Hajime Shinyu , 2021
Original Hand-Thrown Principle Analogue, Master
56” x 61” , 142cm x 155cm
acrylic, canvas
Zen is not a particular thing. Zen is any and everything pointing
at any and everything simultaneously- through a particular thing.
Splash Moda Unsui 了解雲水 / Teisho GSM5078
一切合切 “Issai Gassai”
Tenzo Hajime Shinyu , 2021
Original Hand-Thrown Principle Analogue, Master
56” x 61” , 142cm x 155cm
acrylic, canvas
“Here is the key to the great matter and secret of life and peace of mind: Hope, actual hope. Disinherit, abandon all hostility given you. Disinherited, abandoned, all hostility withers, and undernourished, abandoned, so loses its savor. Disinherited, undernourished and abandoned, so having lost its savor, withered, all hostility ceases to have any meaning for you, and, its meaning having ceased to be— vanishes. So, it is said, regnant among all things of heaven and of earth likewise, it is only Hope, such actual hope, that ever remained. “Abandon all hostility those who enter here” is upon the way of heaven given you, and in any and everything so inscribed. Such is the way and nature of Hope, actual hope also given you. Reflect upon this. What has been read: “given you,” is within you. You are free.”
