If we
walk past the fires
of racism, sexism, and so on
because illusions of separation
exist within them, we may well
be walking past one of the
widest gateways to
enlightenment.
If we
walk past the fires
of racism, sexism, and so on
because illusions of separation
exist within them, we may well
be walking past one of the
widest gateways to
enlightenment.
Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower
and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot,
enough chiaroscuro, enough of thus and prophecy
and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and tis
of thee, enough of bosom and bud, skin and god
not forgetting and star bodies and frozen birds,
enough of the will to go on and not go on or how
a certain light does a certain thing, enough
of the kneeling and the rising and the looking
inward and the looking up, enough of the gun,
the drama, and the acquaintance’s suicide, the long-lost
letter on the dresser, enough of the longing and
the ego and the obliteration of ego, enough
of the mother and the child and the father and the child
and enough of the pointing to the world, weary
and desperate, enough of the brutal and the border,
enough of can you see me, can you hear me, enough
I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate,
enough of the animal saving me, enough of the high
water, enough sorrow, enough of the air and its ease,
I am asking you to touch me.
Venture
with love and
you win the battle.
Defend with love and you are
invulnerable. Heaven’s
secret is motherly
love.
from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,
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Those who
awaken never rest in one place.
Like swans, they rise and leave the lake.
On the air they rise and fly an invisible course.
Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness.
They have seen how to break free.
Who can follow them?
the curious case of sidd finch
Who can
free himself of achievement
and fame, then descend and be
lost amidst the masses
of men?