Looking outside the window
where the blue and red painted
letters
say teaveg.thukpamilkveg.momo
and so on, la sog pa, all backwards for me,
all tempting —
no class today, so
i get the Special Thali.
the sun dares to shine:
“you’ve got to be like a window
–not a door
but a window”
If you want to transmit wisdom
through speech
Properly
that is.
This ashtray that abides
before me is beautiful. The scene
before you is Beautiful. If there was
an All-Powerful Overseer, he wrote this
universe to remember the beauty
in her mind.
We have many eyes.
Some of them are clouded.
Some of them are clear.
Some of them are made of smoke
And some emit sweet tears.
The Tathagata never wrote a
book, but had many mouths instead.
From them all, he sent forth flowers
which fall upon your head.
Darjeeling, India
5.5.2008
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