diving into the deep…
no need
to come up grasping
for air
Tag Archives: meditation
Ekphrastic Haiku 4
waves which are ocean made of ocean
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
Haikus #91-94 Mind and Colour
hot color cold colour
bright color dim colour:
colours are the speech of the gods!
Haikus #95-103 Grasping
one breath
after another
existential grasping!
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