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2019, 8*, Arya Lalitavistara, asking, branches, Buddha, flow, milk, need, offering, passing, place, rice, river, sitting, Sujata, time, wisdom
Sujātā
the Nairañjanā flows,
it always flows, Sujātā
knows the flows, she had passed there
every day, she passed
the Bodhisattva parched
as a blackened tree-stump,
and every day saw only
the low low reach of
the tree wide and high
waiting for the One
to sit under, axial
to the universe
and before it was even
apparent and the need
had yet to ask she
had creamed the
sweetest milk with
bursting grains of rice
and offered it by the
ever-flowing river, all
absent of design and
plot, but ineluctable
in both place and
process; so few found so wise
from the Arya Lalita Vistara Nama Mahayana Sutra:
“The village girl Sujātā, who has done much good in the past,
Continuously makes offerings, thinking: “May this guide complete his discipline!”
When she hears the request of the gods, she brings milk porridge with honey;
She goes to the river and happily sits on the banks of the Nairañjanā.”
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branches & river wormhole: Pont Neuf, Paris, 1902
Buddha wormhole: in deed
flow wormhole: transferring
passing & sitting wormhole: Landscape, Pontoise, 1875
time wormhole: Cours La Reine, Rouen, 1890
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