night dew and moonlight
mingle and shine
friends don’t you know
that this world is filled
with blue flowers
-jobe
a cold night
i shiver as i write down
the names of the gods i deny
and then erase them all
the page is again blank
memories watch me
or so it seems
i rise from the hard straight chair
and wrap a blanket around myself
return
sit
and pick up the pencil
to begin again
this could take a long time
from behind a memory holds me
in her whispery arms
-jobe
Just understand your mind: how it works, how attachment and desire arise, how ignorance arises, where emotions come from. It is sufficient to know the nature of all that; just that gives so much happiness and peace.
-Lama Thubten Yeshe
But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home.
-Dōgen Zenji
The here and now is always a good place to take shelter. Don't leave home without it.
-B. D. Schiers
Ray Wylie Hubbard/Drunken Poet's Dream
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