FACSIMILES

FACSIMILES

Underground the truth
Leaving only faint echoes
… Viewpoints … Opinions

DISAMBIGUATION

DISAMBIGUATION

Content or else left discontented.
Full of content or else empty; open to
A blossoming in contentedness.

Void and avoid after all cousins;
It’s all about words and worlds
give or take a letter or two.

“You should stop words and letters,”
Says Dogen, “and learn to withdraw
and reflect on yourself.

“When you do so
your body and mind will naturally fall away,
and your original Buddha nature will appear.”

BILLET-DOUX

BILLET-DOUX

I get the message
But can I interpret it?
Now that’s the question

I THINK

I THINK

You know
How it is
Of course
You know something

… At 6
… At 16
… At 36
… At 56

And at each point
What you “know”
Is vastly deeper
Than earlier knowings

Yet nothing has changed
It was always there
To been known
But you weren’t yet

POINTS OF VIEW

POINTS OF VIEW

To assert one should live without opinions
Is both clearly impossible and paradoxical
But to defend them or argue them to others
Is both quite pointless and often dangerous

OPINIONS

OPINIONS

When I say what I think
Do I recall
That child
That also thought
That it was me
When I was small?