[Byzantine Bindings]

Thursday 31 May 2018

...this apparently

Sadness
is a feeling
a feeling which fills me
emptiness beyond consoling.

Trinity
The dragon and the teapot come to play
"There's something you should know."
they say with one harmonious voice,
"For there to be emptiness there has to be a self
there is no independent self.”
Dragon pours tea
cup gives thanks and drinks
teapot isn't less
cup isn't more.

Looking deeply
seeing inter-is-ness
all is well
for all is one
separation and suffering occur
when notions of self arise.

Conditions
conditions arise
manifestation happens
conditions withdraw
manifestation ceases
because of that
this.

Sadness
is wanting things to be other
they aren't
they are as they are
momentary without moments
everything is as it should be
endlessly.


Words
frail words fail the task
unable to lend silence a voice
for which it never asked.

Silence
silence says it all.

Experience
there's experience
and there's explanation
acres of misunderstanding and confusion
between the two.

My guardian angel says I'd better do some weeding or bookbinding now.
I walk to the allotment; the bookbinding can wait until this afternoon's rain.