From valleys of Ethiopia
To peak of the Himalaya
To all who seek
May wisdom speak
4 Truth
4 reflection on a multifaceted jewel so as I may understand:
The first truth, the nature of existence understood, exemplified succinctly by the three characteristics of existence.
The second truth, abandonment of illusion, exemplified succinctly by the 12 links of dependent origination.
The third truth, realization, exemplified succinctly by the three aspects of the path: determination to be free; arousing Bodhicitta (awakening mind); Prajnaparamita (perfected wisdom).
The fourth truth, the way of the Conqueror, it is simply the Eightfold Path of developing morality, concentration, and wisdom, in which the first step therein is itself “Right View” established on these same Four Noble Truths.
All (practice, realization itself) are dependent on causation wherein what is to be realized is not.
Sustain
Naught but love and kindness
In heart retain.
That heart of naught but love and
Kindness be all that remain.
May all attain,
“I” that remain.
In meditation practice
sustained.
Abiding (Da Capo al Fine)
…Taking refuge, intent on arousing bodhichitta,
In meditation beyond conceptualization,
Dedicating practice’s merits accumulation.
May all attain their heart’s most profound aspiration,
Realizing emptiness, finding refuge on path to liberation,
Buddhas and bodhisattvas abiding without hate, greed, nor illusion.
May I be of any means to such end, as long there remains spacial persistence,
As long as beings endure disillusioned insistence,
So too may I abide, dispelling suffering in Samsara’s cyclic existence…
D.C.
Nominally
Meditation’s Subjective Objective,
No state to obtain,
Maintain, sustain,
Realization of perfection
In reflection.
Diamond-like
Adamantine mind,
Thoughts aligned,
Crystalline.
Clear light refracted,
Phenomena projected.
Methods Supreme
Evils, notions of mine forsaken,
Mind of compassion awaken.
Without conceptualization
in meditation.
Offer toward benefit all
merits-accumulation,
With prayers of dedication.
Pirlo
May you ascend to the higher realms, find refuge on path to liberation, be without hate, greed, and illusion. May I be of any means to such end.
For Experience Hath Shewn
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
– from the “Declaration of Independence” by the United States of America
On a count
If one must make an accounting,
It is of,
Their own blessings they should
Take to counting.
“The soul’s made of stories, not atoms, everything that ever happened to us—people we loved, people we lost… people we found again against all the odds—“
The Eleventh Doctor