tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post2162506396548439829..comments2024-02-24T00:41:37.836-08:00Comments on The Buddha Diaries: That Aging SuitPeter Clothierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11525159413387378704noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965076219235086304.post-56669707272527992402007-05-04T13:17:00.000-07:002007-05-04T13:17:00.000-07:00Last night the giant spherical moonpassed through ...Last night the giant spherical moon<BR/>passed through the trees<BR/>This morning I passed again <BR/>from disturbance to clarity<BR/>The sky and the earth<BR/>giving rise to shape<BR/>the mountain, the lake<BR/>i saw there is no conflict<BR/>That i can gain peace <BR/>and still make distinctions between things<BR/>i can see high and low<BR/>i see their difference is motion<BR/>compliments<BR/>in cyclical movement which begins and ends<BR/>at the same point<BR/>united in equilibrium <BR/>separated by value<BR/>always adjusting to one another <BR/>infallibly<BR/>Not to be duped<BR/>by arguments of illusions<BR/>hollow words of The Unclear<BR/>Everything became comprehensible <BR/>Everything but the great origin, of course<BR/>The turmoil falls away<BR/>Every thing's essence<BR/>in spherical transparent forms <BR/>of constant change <BR/>intersecting each other wherever and whenever<BR/>there are affinities, laws of attraction<BR/>And even greater, is <BR/>that understanding this <BR/>predictability comes into view<BR/>Nothingness turns to everythingness. <BR/>Oneness includes the superior and the inferior<BR/>Because high and low compliment each other <BR/>in the most amazing ways <BR/>a myriad of things and events <BR/>each dependent on everything else<BR/>in, almost psychedelic movement<BR/>everything changing into its opposite<BR/>health into sickness, and sickness back to health <BR/>or on to death, where matter reconstitutes <BR/>itself as life and health <BR/>once again<BR/>law of rejuvenation<BR/>Of course, there are the outside forces<BR/>mechanical actions of men <BR/>threatening the cyclical ballet<BR/>of every thing's perfect dance <BR/>But they're no match for the immutability <BR/>of the movement. It continues its rhythmic<BR/>metaphysical metamorphosis<BR/>since long before their time<BR/>They will learn <BR/>they are not too big<BR/>and bring themselves <BR/>indubitably<BR/>into harmony with it, or be absorbed by it <BR/>as so many have in the past<BR/>change too, into their opposites<BR/>Become dust <BR/>But this clearness, gives me<BR/>real power to choose<BR/>and i choose movement<BR/>on the path of least resistance<BR/>my sphere intersecting<BR/>within the myriad things in motion<BR/>Where i flow like water<BR/>bending around all obstacles<BR/>down the mountainside<BR/>to the lake<BR/>to rise again as clouds<BR/>to fall again as rain<BR/>washing away the veil of illusion<BR/>to fall on the mountain<BR/>again<BR/>It's utterly beautiful hereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com