[tabby title="Poem"] Ingenious states of mind:ease; simplicity; lightness; and brevity. Ubiquitous margins describing utopia?The remote peripheries. The target?Innate, guileless, innocent and simpleintentions, plans and creativity. You (and I)most rank ‘good’ delicious …the goal, the act, the heart. In the beginning:division,...

[tabby title="Poem"] 'Some notes from and about Qici the Sack Monk' Qici (契此和尚),who was also known as 'the Sack Monk' (布袋和尚),is said to have left a note -now recorded in Chinese as follows: 彌勒真彌勒,分身百千億,時時示世人,世人總不識. That might be interpreted as noted...

[tabby title="Poem"] “Shiva and Shakti,”some say,“are indistinguishable.They are one.They are the universe.Shiva isn’t masculine.Shakti isn’t feminine.At the core of their mutual penetration,the supreme consciousness opens”. Energy, ability, strength, effort, power and capability(शक्ति [śakti])and happiness, welfare, prosperity, bliss and liberation(शिव [śivá])are...

[tabby title="Poem"] Why the crow? It is natural. The ideal way to live one’s life –whether referred to as मार्ग (Mārga: ‘the eight-fold noble path’),道 (the Dào)or Λόγος (Logos: the ‘Word’) –crows concerning all manner of things …including the Sun,...