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light the world 🪷

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…in the pursuant calm I name the clouds, the facts unchanged, alone as a nightingale tethered to himself & by himself on no branch but this…

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empty

but there

🪷

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myriad forms

of emptiness

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ceaseless movement

nothing more

nothing less

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nothing is

repeated

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Nothing Special

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the cuckoo

does not lecture

it just calls

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a sound
appears

it is vivid

it vanishes

nothing needs
to be done

🪷

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nothing

occurs

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vivid

& empty

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nothing

comes from

nothing

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nothing

need be

altered

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my life began
when I said
to the monk

we are in this together

& he smiled (gently)
& said

what is this

that we are
in together

& after a while

our breath
coming & going

he added

& who are we

that are in
this together

& somewhere outside

the rain pattered on

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emptiness

is free

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@InduPillai01 me watching my thoughts be like 😅

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appearances

are none other

than their source

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find

the

gentle

place

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Look Again

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when you bow

to the Buddha

you are bowing

to your mind

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@acidsutra have always found it helpful to replace “suffering” with “dissatisfaction” when hearing translations of the Buddha’s teachings into English 🌸