Dōgen’s Dream

2022 - present

Walking through a healthy second growth forest is a place of possibility and forgiveness. All is alive, growth is multiplied upon itself. It begins to feel like I am able to breath underwater, floating through an endless ocean. I cease to exist. I believe this is love.

What happens when the god of spring
meets spring? He thinks for a moment
of great whales traveling from the bottom
to the top of the earth, the day the voyage
began seven million years ago
when spring last changed its season.
He enters himself, emptiness
desiring emptiness.  He sleeps
and his sleep is the dance of all the birds
on earth flying north.
-Dōgen’s Dream, Jim Harrison