– sigh! –
they built the throne high
homage to the words which reach to the sky
homage to the words which dissolve into sky
due and proper
they built it too high
with no steps
with no steps!
the worst sort of idolatry
all homage and no practice
all industry and no yield
all protocol and no truth
realisation stuck in amber
the way of all institutions with walls
they seek to expose indolence
as earnestly as if it were true practice
for the sake of the Teaching
they would renounce even eating sleeping and defecating
for the sake of all beings
the Teaching cannot be besmirched
wide sky everywhere
but it is so dark …
the throne is not high
I am not low
I shall sit on the throne
I shall sit on the floor
shall I give them a talk
or shall I talk
I shall talk
of jewels in refuse
and refuse in hiding
of vows to pause
and pause to keep finding
of finding to step
and stepping with poise
of poise to balance
and balance to sit
of the sky the sky the sky
of the sky and everything
look at their faces –
some of them got my jokes
(a few of them saw them coming)
most looked around the place to see where my voice was coming from –
all of them are so perfect
but variously blind
anyway
I’m off to the South now … oh!
I never left!
if you’ve made it all the way down here it might make fuller sense if read before or after this, or this, or this; or it might not, or it might both alternately, or it might neither permanently; either way, or not, I am happy to have propagated the name of Shantideva
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
attention wormhole: sunny morning
awareness wormhole: no biggie:
balance & voices wormhole: should is good when / too used to cruise
being & doing & emptiness & realisation wormhole: that
Bodhichitta wormhole: 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
faces wormhole: tag cloud poem VII – form new freedom:
giving wormhole: the utter beauty of giving when receiving
identity & living & sky & speech & talking wormhole: Plumstead – Woolwich 121114
meditation wormhole: posture
posture wormhole: smiling
practice wormhole: poessay IX – … just saying, is all II
Shantideva wormhole: multifarious: the Dark Knight Returns (1986)
sitting wormhole: there are patient listeners
society & words wormhole: Dr Strange III – the needs of billions
