a potent understanding

of duality, from a perspective outside of such:

"Whatever one chooses, we either accept our existence, or dispute it. We either accept what happens in the moment, or we dispute that."

that is the way i understand my baby.

only when the

i don't know

"Cease trying to forgive those who wronged you. Aim to kill the self within, not until then will you find there is nothing that even remembers the injury." --Two Listeners

Perhaps any of us could get along with perfect people. But our task is to get along with imperfect people. --Richard L. Evans


"Entering Monkhood" National Geographic Photos

killing the buddha

yet unlikely it sits luminescently
under the very wax of the thing
still alive it pulses threading
through the center of my eye

if i break you snakelike off your
cunningly store-bought gardenia,
will you stick the tip of your tongue
on the cross-hatched nexus of my offering?