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Spring Blossom

 

 

 

Spring blossoms — the cherry blossom, plum blossom, peach blossom — suddenly appear on seemingly dead branches, heralds of the coming spring. They represent the gentle, almost unnoticed flowering of enlightenment, the surprisingly quiet recognition of the Buddha-mind. These spring blossoms appear only after the hard, lonely winter of meditation and spiritual practice, yet when they peek forth, their appearance is natural, effortless. Spring blossoms are the new life that emerges from the dead branches of the little self, they simply emerge when the limited ego has passed through its seasons and withered away.

See also

Lotus
Rose
Rose
Rose
Rose

Poems with the theme of Spring Blossom

  Ammons, A. R. Hymn
  Ashford, Eric Perfectly
  Ashford, Eric Stay Close to the Lovers
  Ashford, Eric Suddenly
  Basho, Matsuo Crow's
  Basho, Matsuo Temple bell,
  Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks
  Beni Raga Ramkali
  Berry, Wendell Sabbaths 1998, VI
  Catherine of Siena We were enclosed, (from Prayer 20)
  Ching-Yuen, Loy To know Tao
  Clare of Assisi When You have loved, You shall be chaste
  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To Nature
  Dariya Without love there can be no devotion and wisdom. (from Love Chapter)
  Dogen Wondrous nirvana-mind
  Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun
  Galib, Seyh If I say that the skies have opened
  Gascoigne, Dame Catherine One thing alone I crave / Unum sit mihi totum
  Ghalib, Mirza The drop dies in the river
  Ghalib, Mirza The Rose with its redolent petals
  Granger, Ivan M. Fidelity
  Granger, Ivan M. in love with the new sun
  Granger, Ivan M. When the Spring Thaw Comes
  Granger, Ivan M. white world
  Hafiz Spring and all its flowers
  Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [7] You have seen the blossoms among the leaves;
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Contemplation
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Fall Moon Festival
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Interrelationship
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names
  Herbert, George The Flower
  Hildegard of Bingen O mirum admirandum / Antiphon for Saint Disibod
  Hildegard of Bingen O virga mediatrix / Alleluia-verse for the Virgin
  Holmes, Dick Afternoon in April
  Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul Forever
  Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Bright are Thy tresses, brighten them even more, (from Baal-i-Jibreel)
  Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel)
  Islam, Nazrul Come silently like the Moon
  Islam, Nazrul O Nightingale!
  Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn
  Islam, Nazrul Talk to me, javas, talk to me --
  Issa, Kobayashi In the cherry blossom's shade
  Issa, Kobayashi spring begins--
  Jacobsen, Rolf Guardian Angel
  Jacobsen, Rolf Moon and Apple
  Jayadeva When he quickens all things (from The Gitagovinda)
  Jayadeva [3] When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda)
  Jayadeva [6] My heart values his vulgar ways, (from The Gitagovinda)
  John of the Cross The Fountain
  Kabir [XII] Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale.
  Kabir (4) Do not go to the garden of flowers!
  Kabir (6) The moon shines in my body
  Kabir (8) Within this earthen vessel
  Kamalakanta The black bee of my mind is drawn in sheer delight
  Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
  Khayyam, Omar [7] Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
  Khayyam, Omar [8] And look -- a thousand Blossoms with the Day
  Khayyam, Omar [26] Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise
  Khayyam, Omar [72] Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
  Lalan As the man and the woman in me
  Lalla (Ded, Lal) What is worship? Who are this man
  Lawrence, D. H. And Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be--
  Lee, Li-Young From Blossoms
  Leon, Luis de The Life Removed
  Levertov, Denise The Fountain
  Lu Tung Pin Sojourning in Ta-yu mountains --
  Machado, Antonio I dreamt you took me
  Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping,
  Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs
  Machado, Antonio Songs
  Mahadevi, Akka Would a circling surface vulture
  Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters
  Mathias, Michael The Tree of the Tao (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree)
  Mathias, Michael (13) Jalal's Search for Jamal and the Mystical Tree (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree)
  Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead
  Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City
  Merton, Thomas Song for Nobody
  Merton, Thomas The Fall
  Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings
  Milarepa Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,
  Mistral, Gabriela Song of Death
  Nasimi, Imadeddin I take the Merciful Onešs shape, the Merciful I am.
  Neruda, Pablo Too Many Names
  O'Donohue, John On the death of the Beloved
  Oliver, Colin Here I see no-one
  Oliver, Mary Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?
  Oliver, Mary Spring
  Oliver, Mary The Ponds
  Oliver, Mary This World
  Oliver, Mary Yes! No!
  Po, Li Alone and Drinking Under the Moon
  Po, Li Clearing at Dawn
  Po, Li Self-Abandonment
  Po, Li The Cold Clear Spring at Nanyang
  Po, Li Visiting a Taoist on Taitien Mountain
  Po, Li You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,
  Pope, Alexander What if the foot ordain'd the dust to tread, (from An Essay on Man I)
  Porete, Marguerite How Truth Praises Such Souls
  Rahman Baba Sow Flowers
  Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Conquer Death with the drumbeat Ma! Ma! Ma!
  Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara --
  Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Meditate on Kali! Why be anxious?
  Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Who in this world
  Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance?
  Reninger, Elizabeth Deer
  Reninger, Elizabeth Deluge
  Rilke, Rainer Maria I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
  Rilke, Rainer Maria O Lacrimosa
  Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies)
  Rilke, Rainer Maria We are the driving ones.
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (1) You are in me (from Year of the Goddess)
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (4) A daisy picked (from Year of the Goddess)
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (13) Spring Showers (from Year of the Goddess)
  Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean
  Ryokan First days of spring -- the sky
  Ryokan Reply to a Friend
  Ryokan The Lotus
  Ryokan The plants and flowers
  Ryokan The winds have died, but flowers go on falling;
  Sanai, Hakim Bloom Like a Rose
  Sanai, Hakim The Wild Rose of Praise
  Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa)
  Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) A Song by a Yogi in Solitude
  Shih Shu against the gently flowing spring morning
  Shih Shu mountain sounds carry a chill wisdom
  Shih Shu "nothing to do; nothing to lose"
  Shikibu, Izumi I cannot say
  silent lotus Feel the Peace
  Silesius, Angelus Thou needst not cry to God,
  Sinan, Ummi The Rose
  Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings
  Soseki, Muso Snow Garden
  Soseki, Natsume Plum flower temple:
  Sun Buer Cut brambles long enough,
  T'ao Ch'ien After Liu Ch'ai-Sang's Poem
  Tagore, Rabindranath He's there among the scented trees, (from The Lover of God)
  Tagore, Rabindranath Who are You, who keeps my heart awake? (from The Lover of God)
  Tagore, Rabindranath Your flute plays the exact notes of my pain. (from The Lover of God)
  Tagore, Rabindranath (75) Thy gifts to us mortals fulfil all our needs (from Gitanjali)
  Tagore, Rabindranath (81) On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time (from Gitanjali)
  Takahashi, Shinkichi Gods
  Teasdale, Sara Two Songs for Solitude
  Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew
  Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven
  Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa)
  Traherne, Thomas Love
  Tung-Shan (Tozan) Verses on the Five Ranks
  Valad, Sultan The Soul That Does not Live in God is not Alive
  Vaughan, Henry The Morning Watch
  Vaughan, Henry Vanity of Spirit
  Vidyapati As the mirror to my hand,
  Walters, Dorothy Don't Make Lists
  Walters, Dorothy Still Life
  Wei, Wang Living in the Mountain on an Autumn Night
  Wei, Wang Stone Gate Temple in the Blue Field Mountains
  Wordsworth, William "To every Form of being is assigned," (from The Excursion, Book 9)
  Wu Men (Hui-k'ai) Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
  Zorman, Alenka midday sun


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