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Homage to CTR

Who is exhausted when remembering your inexhaustible naughtiness?

Who is reverent having been taught to ransack kleshas and show no mercy?

Who is regretful when every moment is a glorious dawn of present realization?

Meditation Haiku 2022: #1 – 6

diving into the deep…
no need
to come up grasping
for air

Ekphrastic Tanka #10: Living Olmec

deep down in the earth
high in the heavens
intertwined jungle days and nights
swirling past and future visions
dark enfolds the light

Ekphrastic Tanka Series

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

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

Trikaya Ruminations #2 The Three Levels of Spiritual Development

The Buddhist teachings involve three main Yanas, or vehicles, which correspond with the three main stages of spiritual development (true in all genuine traditions) namely:
a) working with confusion to tame and pacify it
b) working out of confusion into realization
c) working with realization to stabilize and complete it

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