1.
Gautama eventually awakened from his extreme zazen.
But the bodhi tree he'd sat under still hasn’t.
2.
Respect all nature like yourself.
You are a part of it.
3.
What seems inanimate isn’t.
It’s just way too deep inside to show itself yet.
But it will.
4.
Patience, lifeforms, patience
as we wait even on stones to blossom!
5.
En-circle whatever is with the blossom of your compassion
like Lotus Stonehenge.


pavel, checking his watch in a karmic check-out aisle

The Golden Horde of Detachment

mows

the grass stems of perception

clean down to the soil.

In your upwardly-transcending

self-growth,

grow down, not up.

In root,

we are already grounded.

Let go of the light.

It’s not going anywhere.