What’s happening now
is all there is of what’s left
in your warranty.
If this was your life’s last act,
how would you be remembered?
Don’t put anything off;
put all of your energy
into everything.
You only have this minute.
What else are you waiting for?
11 JUL 2024
Have you ever seen
someone become, in this life,
a bodhisattva –
I mean, who wasn’t one yet
when they started on their way?
If you can become
a thing you’re not already,
how is that trick done?
Not through potential or work –
that gets you Somewhere.
When your salt doll self
measures the ocean’s suchness,
the shore melts away.
What could be left to become
when you’re only here?
28 JUN 2024
So many choices
in a moment’s tiny span;
is it destiny?
No matter your direction,
the path will stay beneath you.
The door is open.
You stand at a great threshold;
which way do you move?
There is just air on both sides.
Never take the same breath twice.
27 JUN 2024
With what great faculty would you describe
a something that is nothing in itself –
an emptiness that does not rise or fall,
but is and isn’t, both, at the same time,
and lights, but doesn’t land, adrift in time
(which is not quite a ribbon, nor a wheel),
a thought that thinking has no way to grasp
or shape into a solid universe.
Beyond, beyond, beyond what is beyond;
if you can see it, do not trust your eyes.
25 JUN 2024
Look: for a minute
the light takes over dark
as the great wheel turns.
Then, in the next span of now,
the shadow always grows back.
There must be balance
in our illusion of two –
no up without down,
until we are reconciled
beyond the borders of form.
21 JUN 2024
True knowledge is free;
it grows like roadside flowers.
Who can afford it?
The trick is letting it go
so it can keep blossoming.
Paying tuition
at such a school is so hard:
you owe attention.
You can’t write a check for that;
your life is not accounting.
17 JUN 2024
Emptiness is form; nothing has nothing in it, like air in a jar. Saying the jar owns that air is a foolish way to think.
Form is emptiness; nothing has something to it that is not alone. Thinking one jar’s empty space stops at its rim is silly.
16 JUN 2024
