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Bodhisattva
There is no trying: Either you are a Buddha or you are not One. Once past duality there is no more “in training”; linear time ends, and everything is connected as Everything. There is nothing else. Just you and the … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, haiku, Japanese forms, poetic forms, practice, reality, realization, samadhi, satori, waka
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The Fall of Because: epilog
Of what’s been done, and heard, and seen, one might well ask, “What does it mean, that this and thus, in such a way should through their actions in this play express a meaning, none too clear, expose a hidden … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, bravery, court, epilog, epilogue, futility, illusion, poetic forms, politics, reality
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Fit to Print: englyn unodle crwca
What’s fit to print is not news. Our bitter, contrary views are merely stuff we seek to use as new fuel; like fools, we think we choose to fight false with what is true, wielding light that will burn through … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, balance, englyn unodle crwca, fiction, illusion, news, poetic forms, reality, truth, Welsh verse forms
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What Happens Next
What makes reality ever so puzzling that vain attempting to just pin it down becomes a deception ensnared in illusion, naught but a fleeting smile behind a frown? What then of fantasy? Will we think ecstasy merely a distraction from … Continue reading
The World is Full of Magic: carole
Though some now say it comes to nil The world is full of magic still The end is nigh, soothsayers scry, and from their parapets do cry “Beware the evil that draws nigh!” – though some now say it comes … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, battle, carol, carole, daily poems, illusion, magic, noel, poetic forms, reality
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Palimpsest
Could be, perhaps, that nothing bad has come to me in life; or that which seems to others sad and cause for care and strife to me has been mere shadow’s play. My days’ and night’s events could look to … Continue reading
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Tagged content, daily poems, disappointment, illusion, personality, reality
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