They say all beings have the Buddha nature
and that means you folks right here
these persimmons too, these chestnuts we’ll share
Budding, blooming, becoming
Act as if all beings as your relatives, parents, children
because they are
get together and take back the land you work
what is unborn cannot be owned
but it can be shared
this dharma is without high nor low, rich nor poor, masters nor slaves.
inherited will, embodied, the incessant heartbeat:
freedom, freedom
ripening, struggling, being
they put you in a noose for your love, your doubt and your rage
for teaching the children, comforting the oppressed and suffering
and refusing to bow
to the powers of this world
falling, dissolving, decomposing
and so you drop your body once again plunged into the stream
tossed and tumbling
scattered and scarred
open, weary
smiling
another foolish dharma seed
something which Law
cannot name, cannot claim and cannot hang
Some thing which is No thing at all
going, gone, gone
what we always were
are
will be
boundless blue sky
in other words: love
&
because this love is selfless
because this love is change
because this love is pain
because this love is empty
it is foolish, it is free,
gone beyond
thus:
gone beyond beyond
another world is possible
because it is possible
It
will
be
…the fruit, the seed,
and the fool
always returning to
THIS
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