a joy free of any impulse to act

 

Flowers,

sesame seed, bowls of

fresh water, a tuft of kusa-grass,

all this altar paraphernalia is not needed

by someone who takes the teacher’s

words in and honestly

lives them.

 

Full of longing

in meditation, one sinks into

a joy that is free of any impulse to act

and will not enter a human

birth again.

 

Lalla