Cold Heart Thawing : The Zen Poetry of Do Chong: An Anthology of Poetry about Living in the Modern World

by Poep Sa, Do Chong

• ISBN13: 9780595189724
• ISBN10: 0595189725
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Iuniverse Inc

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. v
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xxi
Section 1 Free Verse	p. 1
In the beginning	p. 3
Seven day retreat	p. 3
Give it a rest	p. 3
Lost business	p. 4
Azure blue	p. 5
Every shining thing	p. 5
Autumn encounters	p. 6
Autumn e	p. 7
Abuse from time gone by	p. 8
Cows	p. 8
Preacher on the radio	p. 9
Everywhere I look	p. 10
Zen master fortune cookie	p. 11
Technologically dependent	p. 12
Between the seconds	p. 13
Poem for K. D.	p. 16
On to dallas, texas	p. 17
Lost insurance forms	p. 17
Dallas blues	p. 17
Flight 851	p. 18
New mexico	p. 19
Flight 17	p. 20
Home for a spell	p. 21
Intimate friends	p. 21
Separation	p. 21
Morning meditation	p. 22
In touch	p. 23
Dallas again	p. 24
Grasping	p. 24
Wayward souls	p. 24
Fix	p. 25
Leaving dallas	p. 26
Bodhisattva	p. 27
Dharma gasoline	p. 29
Young maeng joing jin	p. 29
No choice	p. 30
Talk-talk	p. 30
Good-bye again	p. 31
Changing perspective	p. 32
Kimberly	p. 33
Peaceful meditation	p. 34
Back-seat driver	p. 35
Karmic dreams	p. 36
Cold heart thawing	p. 37
Hong poep won	p. 38
Renegade ji do poep sa nim	p. 39
Energy	p. 40
Soen yu	p. 41
Trying to settle	p. 42
Grieving	p. 42
Patti	p. 43
Two friends	p. 43
Home of the white squirrel	p. 45
First class flight attendant	p. 45
Furnace mountain	p. 45
Easter 1996	p. 46
To an animal lover	p. 47
Open hands	p. 47
Blessed mornings	p. 48
Confusion	p. 49
Awareness	p. 50
Beginning again	p. 52
I love you	p. 52
Zen master fortune cookie (part II)	p. 54
Technologically dependent revisited	p. 55
Parents, love and attachment	p. 56
Crazy horse	p. 57
Relationships	p. 58
Some kind of happening	p. 59
Same or different?	p. 59
Om mani padme hum	p. 59
Black and white	p. 60
Dharma teacher	p. 61
Thinking	p. 62
Two minds	p. 63
Dressed in grey	p. 64
Only on the surface	p. 65
Matty	p. 65
Blue	p. 66
Mt. baldy	p. 67
Brown ocean	p. 67
Separation	p. 68
Eturning to the birthplace	p. 69
KAL flight 15	p. 69
What day?	p. 69
Hong kong	p. 70
Tiger balm gardens	p. 71
Early morning	p. 71
Longing soul	p. 72
Welcome dinner	p. 73
My shoe is all broken	p. 73
Train to shaoguan	p. 74
Bridge at shaoguan	p. 75
One flower	p. 75
All people become one	p. 76
Chogye mountain	p. 77
Nathan	p. 78
The barrier	p. 79
Lunch at un mun's diner	p. 79
Un mun's temple bell	p. 80
Customs gate	p. 81
Time	p. 82
Energy	p. 83
Rain	p. 83
Living inside my head	p. 83
Denver zen center	p. 84
False idols	p. 86
Wooden idols?	p. 87
Maria kannon	p. 87
Opening	p. 88
Morning stillness	p. 89
Scottsdale, arizona	p. 90
Midnight moon	p. 90
3 day retreat	p. 91
Sitting	p. 92
Morning moon	p. 93
White cat	p. 93
For my matty	p. 94
Mornings	p. 95
Winter into spring	p. 95
Memphis	p. 96
Cookeville, tennessee	p. 97
Route 40	p. 98
West and east	p. 99
White cat two	p. 99
Who are you?	p. 100
Short Verses Not quite Haiku	p. 103
Short Verses	p. 105
One hand clapping bodhisattva	p. 105
About the Author	p. 109
Notes	p. 111
Glossary	p. 113
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