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2017, 8*, Bodhichitta, Bodhisattvacharyavatara, compassion, desire, doing, echo, eyes, faces, gravity, lifetimes, light, love, memory, mother sentient beings, others, seeing, Shantideva, sky, space, speech, true nature, vanity, will
oh, my loves, who look at me
with eyes that dull-echo from
lifetimes back “don’t I love you,
don’t you owe me?” but cannot
remember; yes, yes you do, yes
I do, with so much real interest;
I will love, I will do, what needs
to be done, and short-circuit all
this vanity and indifference;
enough of peripatetic desire and
unsustainable will, I owe your
dear sweet faces (so much to
account, so much to invest) a
truer nature to acknowledge,
a current in to which to plug,
a circuit around which to light –
exponential to the bursting sky –
space-walking gloriously around
the gravity of our own true natures,
so pleased to see you again
Bodhisattvacharyavatara I, 17-19
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
Bodhichitta wormhole: inbreath
compassion wormhole: transmuted
doing wormhole: everwhile
echo wormhole: open window
eyes & lifetimes & sky wormhole: that comicbookshop … // … in dreams
faces wormhole: Sylvia
light & love wormhole: writing: // in turn
others wormhole: ‘field of corn …’
seeing wormhole: ah … // oh … // meanwhile … // … // tha ya ta …
space wormhole: within
speech wormhole: Lapping Reflections [Deep Within Waters] – intemperance
This is fabulous– rhythm, sounds, repetition, the images of circularity…
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ah, Jennifer, thank you, so pleased to see you again
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🙂
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This one is a gem….hmmm, now that I’ve written the word “gem” I see it is a funny little word. I’ll just read this poem over a few more times in delight.
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Avaloikiteshvara holds his first two hands before him in prayer: the palms are slightly cupped because he holds a wish-fulfilling … gem; all his thousand other hands and arms reach in all directions with an eye in each palm to see what is really needed even while helping;
thank you, Jana
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