March 11, 2013
Monday Poem
The Buddha’s doctrine is thus proven:
nothing in this world is created.
................ —(Octavio Paz, per Dharmakirti)
Same Difference
Nothing in this world is created,
said Buddha looking into a lotus bowl
Nothing is created
In this lotus filled to the brim
is nothing which has been created
Nothing is created
From the bottom of this lotus brimming with nothing
but filled with hope open as a door
Nothing is created
Nothing in Buddha’s lotus is created
This lotus has been overflowing always
Nothing is created
Something mounts the sky like a sun
in no time wave by wave ladened with light
Uncreated
When I woke this morning it was
flooding Bald Mountain lapping
its stone tower
Uncreated
When was it not created?
Could it have been
Uncreated?
Buddha says
Nothing is created
Buddha is
Uncreated
What created creation?
Nothing
or the
Unknown
same difference
.
by Jim Culleny
8/18/11
Posted by Jim Culleny at 01:35 AM | Permalink
Comments
Thank you, Jim. Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.
Posted by: Meri | Mar 11, 2013 8:48:57 PM
I have to stop overthinking poems like this. Nice. Thank you.
Posted by: Norman Costa | Mar 12, 2013 11:24:26 AM
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