not what you think

9/1/2014

Clinging tenaciously
to terra firma
starstruck eyes
and cloudy thoughts
and gnawing fear
and empty dreams
scanning
the starry cosmos
for a sign
of life
for your
ascending soul
to go
in a flash
of magical awakening
to get
the hell out of here
to swear out load
finally
"I've made it
I quit this thing
I'm out'
suddenly
without warning
swallowed whole
into the belly
of the whale
you go
down
the rabbit hole
you go
gone
laughing
out loud
"This is it???!!!!"
Beautiful!!!

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The nun Wu Jincang asked the Sixth Patriach Huineng, "I have studied the Mahaparinirvana sutra for many years, yet there are many areas i do not quite understand. Please enlighten me."

The patriarch responded, "I am illiterate. Please read out the characters to me and perhaps I will be able to explain the meaning."

Said the nun, "You cannot even recognize the characters. How are you able then to understand the meaning?"

"Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon’s location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger, right?"

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Analisa Domenica is a humanist minister and mentor, in private practice as a Doula for living and dying. She offers private mentoring sessions, end-of-life preparation & transition support, bereavement, home death, funeral, and natural burial guidance, and laying-on-of-hands for comfort care and pain release. Analisa joyfully celebrates weddings and memorials, according to your faith or non-faith tradition. She is available to private clients, small groups, and for public education. Find out more about her by clicking here.

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