To lift food
bits stuck to a pan,
we pour water in it and wait.
Don’t struggle to remove your
wound. Pour time into
your heart and
wait.
tao is beyond any attempt to analyze
Just as
the world can reveal itself
as particles, the Tao can reveal itself
as human beings. Though world and particles
aren’t the same, neither are they different.
Though the cosmic body and your
body aren’t the same, neither
are they different.
Worlds and particles,
bodies and beings, time and space:
all are transient expressions of the Tao.
Unseeable, ungraspable, the Tao is beyond
any attempt to analyze or categorize it.
At the same time, its truth is
everywhere you
turn.
If you
can let go of it
with your mind and
surround it with your
heart, it will live
inside you
forever.
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but heaven welcomes you with open wings
“like an artillery shell passing over us”
Enlightenment
does not care how
you get there.
Thaddeus Golas
*
10 January 1928 ~ 6 February 2019
what will you take?
You are
like the yellow leaf. The
messengers of death are at hand.
You are to travel far away.
What will you take
with you?
