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Ekphrastic Tanka #8: Youthful Gaze

in early morning light
you dance in the golden fields
of a brand new day
when we are young we struggle
when we are old we rejoice

Ekphrastic Tanka 7: Funeral of a Buddha

the world is awake
the whole word awakening
this world waking dream
how many kalpas to come?
secrets revealed in the lights

Ekphrastic Tanka 6: Monastery

when you call to me
summoning present trumpets
my answer still echoes
reverberating valley wide
resonating through the clouds

Ekphrastic Tanka 5: Bodhgaya

we remember you
we voices in the river
flowing through centuries
what is lost can never speak
what is remembered: a dream

Ekphrastic Tanka #2: A Man’s Song

always in our mind
swirling ’round to end of time
you from whom we come
we come to you in time of need
giving you our precious seed

Ekphrastic Tanka #1: Hear my Ancient Call

hear my ancient call
from mists beyond the hermit’s cell
see the rising dawn
we who gaze with bated breath
journeying from one to all

Today is traditional Buddhist New Year’s Day. This is the second new moon after the winter solstice. (Actually, that was yesterday but for some reason the scholars-that-be have proclaimed today The Day.) Am heading up to our cabin property in the hills and will cast the Yi for the year and publish it here later.Continue reading “Cheerful (Lunar) New Year!”

Ekphrastic Haiku 4

waves which are ocean made of ocean

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