Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo
Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
The basis of art is change in the universe.