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2018, 7*, acting, audience, betrayal, blood, Bodhisattvacharyavatara, breathing, brother, children, circumstance, concentration, doors, emptiness, enemy, expectation, identity, life, light, machinations, music, naked, others, realisation, role, self-grasping, self-image, silence, sky, society, sound, stage, theatre, thinking, traffic
ah, there’s the theatre and
inside, the stage is set,
the audience settled, the
lights down, thank the fates,
I almost didn’t make it –
the traffic at this time of day! –
the other is here, good,
warming up, waving that
stick all about, making whoosh
noises, being all athletic and
disciplined, I’d better get ready,
torn robe on, oh, the blood
smear it on, quick, and
the hanging limb, OK,
concentrate, breathe – be
the character – I need
to give the performance
they are expecting – the
circumstance, the machinations,
the betrayal … no, not enough,
what if it happened to my
children, what if it were my
brother with the stick, oh yes,
it’s come to this, use the silence
of the realisation, use the
music – slamming doors
in the sky! – no, this is more
than my story, this is the
history of my nation, quick,
I’m ready now, I’m naked,
I’m gutted and impaled, now
for the finishing blow – how
glorious this will be, I have
so much invested in this,
there will be ovations and
encores, so worthwhile,
I hope he has practised
well – knows where the
padding is; wait, is that
a blade, tied to, the end
from Bodhisattvacharyavatara, Chapter VI – verse 43-44: [43] Here is a brandished weapon, and here is my body ready and presented, both of them the causes of my eventual suffering. My attacker has laid hold of his stick (tena śastraṃ), and I both wear and brandish my body. With what should I get angry? [44] It is I who have obtained and hold on to this boil, this pressured blister of a human body – sack of suffering – which cannot even bear to be touched and, moreover, it is I who am blind-sided through my own attachment to it, so that when the pain comes and the ‘boil’ bursts, with whom should I get angry?
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20th century wormhole: tram
breathing & society wormhole: the reach turned to love
doors wormhole: pursued
emptiness & life & others wormhole: the mantra of Maitreya
identity wormhole: I
light wormhole: travelling / back
music wormhole: and … // … sound
realisation wormhole: passing
silence wormhole: birth in the world
sky wormhole: horizon
sound wormhole: …zzh-vvttP*–… … …
thinking wormhole: ‘ouch’
mlewisredford 