mind of ice, mind of heaven…
Author Archives: The Baron
Ekphrastic Haiku: The First
A Heaven Earth and Man haiku….
Trikaya Ruminations #3 All experience involves primordial mind
Primordial, knowing mind is behind all and every experience so every experience is inseparable from primordial mind.
Confusion is the process whereby we believe that mental events, beings and phenomena are independent from this primordial mind even though such confusion is a part of and not apart from it.
Two Truths Ruminations #1: Experiencing the Absolute
First there is a mountain
Then there is no mountain
Then there is
Haiku #104: Cosmic Copulation
clouds into sky
sky into space
such marvellous primordial joy
our universal birthright
Buddhism 101 #5 – The Two Truths, Relative and Absolute
Absolute truth, often described as ‘the basic nature of mind,’ is nondual. Relative truth, which is the way we usually experience mind, is dual. Dual here means a view which perceives a fundamental separation – and thus a duality – between self and other, one person and another, one place and another, one moment and another.
Poem: Voice of Madness – complete
The taste of the sea, the smell of clean
the remembrance of all knowing
held in the palm
of the god’s hand
a drop of liquid glory
known as water
Poem: Voices of Madness – III – the gods
Yama spits out the bones of every corpse he’s ever ground
between his molars of destiny
his subliminal indifference
Dramatic Verse – speech by Naked Woman
Thus naturally reveal the living landscape and history of my
Defeats, failures, sorrow
All telling their tales in my unfolding form,
Which becomes increasingly a form of many folds
And bulges, and over them all an ever finer network of
Interlinking wrinkles, a living raku coated in cracks all over the surface …
Of this my living skin,
This outer billboard of my inner womanhood
Poem: Voices of Madness – II – other
humans abandoning human emotions
demons despairing of being fought against bravely
abandon the currency of mutual respect
and wallow in wanton lower realm scorn
spinning the wheel of samsara as idle indulgence
grown fat and happy with complacency’s sinecure