3.10.2008

An Ancient Teaching


Know all things to be like this:

A mirage, a cloud castle,

A dream, an apparition,

Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.


Know all things to be like this:

As the moon in a bright sky

In some clear lake reflected,

Though to that lake the moon has never moved.


Know all things to be like this:

As an echo that derives

From music, sounds, and weeping,

Yet in that echo is no melody.


Know all things to be like this:

As a magician makes illusions
Of horses, oxen, carts and other things,

Nothing is as it appears.


BUDDHA

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