The Practice

About the content of a booklet

The truth is

the lotus has always been clear

in its heart

the winter has signaled

the knell

life would soon be

circled

before the terminus

once more it meditates

looking intently into the mirror

in the water

thinking and reflecting the time

from exuberance

to decay

during the passage

has there been any

dusty spot

how far away still

is goodness

have the teachings

been mastered

has the unsullied realization

been entered

toward the completion

of the monastic cultivation

and practice summed up

by time and space

understanding the purpose

of frost

the meaning

of the chill and cruel

is for the soul

to elevate an eternal

statue

the same cycle

from stagnant water

to frozen snow

then turning stony ice

back into water of springtime

awaiting the next nirvana

in the green of breeze.

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

If you get more than one nirvana you must be a bodhisattva.