Ducks Off Water's Back

[Guest guest]

Dive in deeper still.

But still,

Still the diving reflex

and reflect

the Reflection

of No One Reflecting

Anything.

 

Nothing to it!

 

Is anyone there

to swear out an affidavit yet?

 

Here or there,

she goes up the stairs.

She goes down the stairs.

she goes up the stairs.

 

Let's sit back

and reflect on this,

shall we?

i shall be Your Cloak of Plums

Plumbing the depths of Death

that all plums,

being just, well, plums,

must do.

 

This is a plum of a pun.

Why do ducks plump up their feathers

when they stand on one foot?

 

The feathers of Daffy Duck

are still spinning in circles

saying to the Sea:

 

"It never ends!"

 

"Nothing left to do.

Here's the new rule:

 

Break the wineglass

and fall

into the Glassblower's

Breath."

 

~Rumi

 

"I felt that you were not acting

but dreaming;

I felt that all of us who watched you

could come out of the theatre and

without transition could pass magically

into another Ball, another snowstorm,

another love, another dream.

Before our very eyes you were being

consumed by love and the dream of love.

The burning of your eyes,

of your gestures,

a bonfire of faith and

dissolution. You have the power.

Never again use exhibitionism.

Acting in you is revelation.

What the soul so often cannot say

through the body

because the body

is not subtle enough,

you can say...

 

And your voice,

your voice more than any other voice

linked to your breath,

the breathlessness of feeling,

so that you take one's breath away

with you,

and carry one

into the realm

of breathlessness

and silence."

 

~Anais Nin

 

Mickey and Daffy sit

like Sphinxs hurling

hijinx at the Wall.

 

Every night is just

another sultry Sesshin

on the snowy mountain.

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie

 

 

 

......

 

 

A monk told Joshu:

"I have just entered the monastery.

Please teach me."

 

Joshu asked:

"Have you eaten your rice?"

 

The mink replied:

"I have eaten."

 

Joshu said:

Then you had better wash your bowl."

 

"It is too clear and so

it is hard to see.

A dunce once searched for a fire

with a lighted lantern.

Had he known what fire was,

he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

 

When you understand, you belong

to the family.

When you do not understand, you are

a stranger.

Those who do not understand

belong to the family,

and when they understand

they are strangers."

 

~ Mumon

 

This way proceeds harmoniously.

Being in opposition is not actually

being in opposition.

There are no strangers in

This Family.

When the river pours over the waterfall,

countless beings are shocked into the

objective world.

Splashing down, it is as if

they had never been.

 

Your Voice is that clear!

Silence wants to hear Itself --

You oblige.

This Duck Quack

astounds the universe,

rippling out like plum wine,

splashing over waterfalls that

go down the stairs to

wash the bowls,

after the rice has been eaten.

 

After all, it's just a family meal!

 

LoveAlways,

 

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