calligraphy sentiment

Soen Nakagawa Roshi

One moment, no hurry;
breath ceaselessly flowing.
This is the nature of the universe.

 Or, alternatively translated:

       Not one moment of hurry;
       Not one wasted breath.
       This is the natural way of being.

Taste is taste, but I enjoyed getting an email from photographer and collector (among other things) Bruce Kennedy yesterday, an email in which he made reference to one of the calligraphies he owned. The sentiment (if not the calligraphy itself) from Soen Nakagawa Roshi, former abbot of Ryutakuji monastery in Japan, just banged my chimes ... as, perhaps, for others, it might fall -- lawsy! lawsy! -- into a realm of solemnified, abracadabra Zen Buddhism. Taste is taste.

For those inclined, here's Bruce's collection.