"hundreds of open flowers
all come from the one branch.
look,
all their colors
appear in my garden.
i open the chattering gate,
and in the wind
i see
the spring sunlight.
already it has reached
worlds without number."
-Osho on Sekiso poem
"The quality of Zen poetry that has always to be
remembered is that it is pictorial. Don't try to understand, try to see it.
Only Zen is different in every way. This poetry is not to be
understood. It is not a question of intellect, it is a question of feeling, of
creating with visualization, in your silence with closed eyes, the whole world
that he is talking about: the flowers, you have to see them; the colors, you
have to see them.
And when you see the colors and the flowers and the
chattering gate -- as you open it, it crackles -- and the sunrays entering
through the gate reaching to the flowers, you may smell the fragrance, you may
even pluck a few flowers.
This is a very existential way of expression."
