awareness

Ekphrastic Haiku: Growing into Being

flowing into breathing
is growing into being
trees rooted in rocks

Ekphrastic Haiku: Heaven Earth & Man

misty valleys above
homes huddling below
crossing twixt here and there

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

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