Vanity

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Emptiness, Tanka

Painting by Paul Bond

Life is a journey,
There is no winner, no loser.
We sail to nowhere.

Struggling in vain for at the
End, we will meet emptiness.

Emptiness

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Emptiness, Tanka

There is no truth,
There is no destination.
We are emptiness.

There’s nothing but delusion
Dust swept out by the time.

A cat, a dog, a koi

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Emptiness, Koi

The cat wants to eat the koi fish.
The dog wants to chase away the cat.
The Koi fish quietly lives in the pond.

She has no desire,
She has no anger.
She is simply alive.

I am like the koi fish,
I cross the delusion world
Like a stranger.

Nothingness and emptiness
Are my only destination.

Emptiness

Tags

Emptiness, Tanka

What are we doing
There? All is an illusion.
We are nothingness.

The footsteps in the snow that
Vanish into emptiness.

Illusion

Tags

Emptiness, Tanka

Painting by Octavio Ocampo

We walk a strange path,
From nowhere to nowhere, we
Are only passing.

We live in an illusion,
We are made of emptiness.