The Zen of Seeing - great book

"The twelth-century Baso was one of those...When asked about his zen discipline, he said: 'When tired I sleep, when hungry I eat.'

'Doesn't everybody do that?' he was asked.

'No,' said Baso.  'When others eat they do not eath with their whole being.  They talk, they plan, they think while eating, and they dream and worry while asleep.'"

White moves, circles, spins off
change from formless to form,
or pieces of a larger form unseeable
becoming visible to the human spirit.
The mass moves before the sun,
and all a sudden the whiteness -
moving, penetrable to impenetrable
and back --
illuminates in a breathing pink,
purple sage spreading to hide
violet blue that should be black, so it never can disappear.
And I move, too, and change
from formless to form and back --
a circling, transient mass.