[Thespiritexpress] Poems Night Lover and Ch'an

[Roz]

I love your beautiful poem Riantee! And thanks for sharing the others too!
Love, Roz

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> On Jun 16, 2022, at 9:03 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Poems read at Mastery:
> 	One of mine Night Lover
> 	and Two Ch’an poems
>>  
>>                                 	
>> 			Night Lover
>>  
>>                        
>>                         The lover defines
>>                                     our world
>>                                                 for the divine,
>>                         the divine
>>                                     discloses the lover
>>                                                 to us.
>>                                    
>> The dream of seriousness dissolved,
>>             we are all created
>>                         and die
>>                                     in the same instant.
>>  
>> When we cry together
>>             we are whole,
>> laughing together
>>             we are one. . .
>>  
>>                         and
>>                         pricking the sky
>>                                                 the stars frolic
>>                                                             with the night lover.
>>                        
>>                                                             A divine chuckle.
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> Two Ch’an poems
>>  
>> Nature
>>  
>> The nature of the Diamond Sutra is empty nature.
>> The meaning of Dharma is no-nature.
>>  
>> Everything we see is nature.
>>  
>> Nature is not different from emptiness
>> emptiness is not different from nature.
>>  
>> The solution:
>> Emptiness and not-emptiness are all of nature.
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> Frost Plum
>>  
>> I counted
>> on two or three
>> twigs
>> ice flowers
>>  
>> newly dressed
>> by the wind
>> it grows
>> lovelier
>>  
>> clear twilight
>> shines
>> shallow shadows
>> approch
>>  
>> No ignorance
>> and no ending of ignorance
>> until we come to no old age
>> and death
>> and no ending of old age
>> and death.
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