This morning
I felt strong and jaunty in my
mail order Israeli commando trousers.
Up at Hard Luck Ranch I spoke to the ravens
in baritone, fed the cats with manly gestures. Acacia
thorns can’t penetrate these mighty pants, then
out by the corral the infant pup began to
weep, abandoned. In an instant
I became another of the
Earth’s billion sad
mothers.
lightning
strikes up out of the earth
stunning the air with sound the sun falls
flaming into the sea bright cracks
open in the burning clouds the sky is broken
this is the season of separation crossed
and crossing paths
Be a lamp,
a lifeboat, a ladder.
Help someone’s soul heal.
Walk out of your house
like a shepherd.
If you wish
to enjoy the fruits
of enlightenment, abandon
regard for the conventional and
the communal. The Way is a path
for one. Then it narrows
until there’s not even
space for you
anymore.
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It is foolish
to think about attaining
realization by any technique.
Make habits of courage, virtue,
and absolute emptiness, and
simply realize what is
already always
present.
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Wei wu Wei Ching as part of a
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book.
