Field Notes #39

A Contemplative's Field Guide

Half-length Portrait of Bodhidharma, mid 18th century, Hakuin Ekaku

“Vast emptiness, nothing holy.”
― Bodhidharma

FIELD NOTES #39

Bodhidharma sits idle:

	his feet forget to hit the floor.
	
Eons pass under open eyes,

	seedbeds become forests,

			fire rages 

and reduces the hillside to ash.

	For all his stoic attention

	he never lifts a finger—

his lidless glare like high beams:

the last thing you 

	see before you crash

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