Thursday, January 19, 2023

Equanimity ~ Thursday, January 19, 2023

Please explain how mind is not indivisible and yet we share mind

Leave impermanence atop the kitchen counter, cutting board and knife

Each, the uncarved block, and the short sword, or tantō, laid atop of

Answer this question, why simplicity matters, lightning strikes me blind

Success lacks value if everyone else is poor, homeless and hungry

Elucidate light that shines out of the pitch black darkness of deep strife

Enlightenment seeks clarity, carat weight, cut, and color, say

Xenophobic heirs of dharma, Buddha nature? Unfortunate dog

Provides old Zhàozhōu with the bile of Baudelaire, negative, angry

Lessons to learn, not from ascribing to a dog the privilege of 'no'

Answer this question, why privilege the paradox of truth as distinct

Indeed opinions matter not for zen masters, mind, nothing to know

Not emptiness, though, nor impermanence, no-self, suffering, succinct

How a poet writes, point at the moon, voicelessly, the sound of a clog

Of one hand clapping, absurd, meaningless drivel, we lap up such drool

Weened of sense, nonsense, and understanding since birth, mind is but a tool

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