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2019, 7*, Bodhichitta, doing, doors, eyes, fly, flying, food, Four Noble Truths, glass, ignorance, liberation, light, sound, suffering, thinking
Four Noble Truths
and here comes the fly
brandishing eye-bulbs in seventeen directions
unaware of in or out
looking for light or food to go
finds one truth against the glass and
findsssszzz the second against the glass
in seventeen different directions
at once – in to the room straight
by my head: do I duck and swat
(hideous temptation that shudder reminds me
no), do I guide it’s flight with foolscap sheet
(and look at those bodies hung en-wrapped in cornered webs
no), the door remains open,
it has but to fly through, the remaining
two truths unfound and all unrealised; may the
supreme and precious jewel
Bodhichitta take birth
where it has not yet done so
where it has taken birth
may it not decrease but may it increase
infinitely
what more fitting way to conclude this meditating-occupation than the Buddha’s teaching of the Four Noble Truths (there is suffering in life, suffering is caused by grasping, grasping can be loosed, by letting it all go) for liberation and Bodhichitta to extend that liberation universally …
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Bodhichitta wormhole: none and all
doing & sound wormhole: ‘and is there homage …’
doors wormhole: ‘from the cathedral window two stories / high …’
eyes wormhole: Lapping Reflections [Deep Within Waters] – valley
glass & light wormhole: ‘not sure …’
thinking wormhole: despite all / depiction
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