“So many years of depression make me vision
The better livin’, type of place to raise kids in
Open they eyes to the lies history’s told foul
But I’m as wise as the old owl, plus the Gold Child
Seeing things like I was controlling, click rollin”

Eating a sandwich
At work in the woods,

As a doe nibbles buckbrush in snow
Watching each other,
chewing together.

A Bomber from Beale
over the clouds,
Fills the sky with a roar.

She lifts head, listens,
Waits till the sound has gone by.

So do I.

“how the rhyme forces the source of thoughts that’s lost”

“A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.”

“…owing to the accomplishment of concentration, one achieves eternal silence in the process of functioning, and owing to the attainment of insight one achieves eternal functioning in the state of silence.”

“It’s hard to keep control, I bless those who seek a scroll
Trying to reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold
Not a role model, I walk a hard road to follow
I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels
The gospel was told, some souls it swallowed whole”

“Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.”

“If I had rubies and riches and crowns
I’d buy the whole world and change things around
I’d throw all the guns and the tanks in the sea”

“city deities engaged in protecting the city of the mind of all beings”

“Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:

The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow only a vision,
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day! Such is the salutation of the dawn.”

“To get his momma out the hood
Put her somewhere in the woods
Keep his lady looking good
Have her rolling like she should“

“Four and fifty years
I’ve hung the sky with stars.
Now I leap through –
What shattering!”

“Heaven’s compassion spreads over me the indigo canopy of the sky;
The Dragon Kings devotion passes round me curtains of white
clouds.”

“The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection;
The water has no mind to recieve their image.”

“a machine, or like a dream, or a lightning, or a cloud; the tripple continuation is torn asunder”

“Just like pictures
Drawn by an artist
So are all worlds
Made by the painter-mind”

“When there is a single obstruction in the eye, there is a shower of flowers in the sky.”

“the flowers make no such distinctions.”

Manjushri: “What has no birth, and what has no extinction?”

Vimalakirti: “The not good has no birth, the good has no extinction.”

“treats them with a compassion boundless, boundless as the empty sky.”

“To become infatuated with the taste of meditation is the bondage of the bodhisattva.”

The fair tree of thought that knows no duality,
Spreads through the triple world.
It bears the flower and fruit of compassion.
And its name is service to others.

The fair tree of the Void abounds with flowers,
Acts of compassion of many kinds,
And fruit for others appearing spontaneously,
For this joy has no actual thought of another.

So the fair tree of the Void also lacks compassion,
Without shoots or flowers or foliage,
And whoever imagines them there, falls down,
For branches there are none.

The two trees spring from one seed,
And for that reason there is but one fruit.
He who thinks them thus indistinguishable,
Is released from Nirvana and Samsara.

“no wisdom and no attainment.”

“Say It returns; It leaves without saying farewell.”

“I SIT quietly, listening to the falling leaves–
A lonely hut, a life of renunciation.
The past has faded, things are no longer remebered.
My sleeve is wet with tears.”

“(1) To be gentle, peaceful, and to abide deeply in right faith;

(2) never to forsake any sentient being;

(3) to achieve a mind of great kindness and great compassion;

(4) to understand all dharmas while remaining unattached to their forms;

(5) never to grasp delusively for any Buddha-Dharmas, in spite of his aspiration to seek them all;

(6) not to aspire to the wisdom of Śrāvakas or Pratekyabuddhas;

(7) to be capable of renouncing ungrudgingly all mundane possessions, even body and life, let alone other things;

(8) not to be contaminated by or attached to conditioned dharmas, although he may undergo countless afflictions in saṁsāra;

(9) to cultivate the immeasurable pāramitās of giving, discipline, patience, vigor, meditation, and wisdom without making distinctions among them; and

(10) always to think, ‘I will establish all sentient beings in the pursuit of Buddha’s enlightenment… and yet without conceiving notion of enlightenment or sentient beings.’”