Twelve and a Half Crippled
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Prostrations to the revered Lama
and
to the Vajra Skygoers.
Human body: attained.
Sense faculties: complete.
Age: young.
Dharma: encountered.
What miracles.
Precepts: the best.
Lineage: good.
Compassion: mastered.
Master: encountered.
What miracles.
Directions: known.
Business: given up.
Retreat: staying.
Put into practice.
What miracles.
Staying alone.
Devoted to meditation.
Anxieties: few.
Preserving experiences.
What miracles.
Relaxed and unwound.
Immovably settled in meditation.
Dharmabody seen. What
miracles.
Nothing to meditate.
Made a habit.
Become real.
Meditation and post-meditation the same. What miracles.
No root or foundation.
Doubts seen through.
Self-reification revoked.
Awakening attained.
What miracles.
Voidness realized.
Compassion arisen.
Aspirations achieved.
Benefit for others done.
What miracles.
Beggar-monk Zhang.
Directions: skilled.
Distracting doubts: cut off.
Words: abundant harvest.
What miracles.
Disciples and sons
Are very loving,
Listen to what I say,
And keep pure commitments.
What miracles.
Little Non Sequiturs
Prostrations to the revered Lama
and
to the Glorious Vajra Skygoers.
For incomprehensibly many aeons
without leisure in body, speech and mind,
they tried to do all sorts of virtuous things
and meditated on the profundity of voidness.
But if they did not serve a Lama
it was all like churning water in hopes of butter.
With no one else to tell them about it
they would never find their birthright, The Innate.
“It is to be known through relying on the
interventional
methods of the Lama and through ones own merit.”
This ever-clear Full Knowledge
has been concealed in the vase of partiality.
This naturally-arrived-at precious quality
has been encased in the mud of inimical anxiety.
The horse of our muddied awareness
has been hobbled in quotidian activity.
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It is amazing how a couple of anonymous pictures can carry one's heart immediately, and effortlessly, more than 40 years back in time, and straight to the right address.
ReplyDeleteDear Anon., I would say ‘Some things never change.’ But actually, even those some things do change over the aeons. I think I know what you mean about McLeod, those photos could have been taken any year in the foreseeable future or distant past. Best wishes for the holy days. Yours, D.
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