Buddha's Flower Necklace

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"Buddha stood beside a lake on Mount Grdhakuta and prepared to give a

sermon to his disciples who were gathering there to hear him speak.

As the Holy One waited for his students to settle down, he noticed a

golden lotus blooming in the muddy water nearby. He pulled the plant

out of the water- flower, long stem, and root. Then he held it up

high for all his students to see. For a long time he stood there,

saying nothing, just holding up the lotus and looking into the blank

faces of his audience. Suddenly his disciple, Mahakashyapa, smiled.

He understood!"

 

What Great Hand has pulled You out of time

and sent You sailing into space to breathe Now

here and now with me?

Here and now

i stand beside this river with No-name

and No-return, calling out Your name

like a child calls out in a happy dream -

 

"Let's Play!"

 

Plucked by the Light from the Core of Existence

i have been hanging suspended from Beloved's Heart Tree

stretched to the limit in this searching for You.

Waiting for century upon century as the breezes of life

have scattered my concentration and my will power,

i never lost the inner-strength to call out

into the Vastness, the Suchness, the Emptiness

for You my Beloved One -

 

For You to come and Dance with me again.

Like Lalla did, i gave "one long unobstructed cry."

 

Even now i still cry into the Universal Pool of Creation

through a habit that has become my Heart's Code.

When was that singular moment when the prayer became

a perpetual beating of this Heart,

a continuous, long mantra being chanted,

an endless falling-calling into that nothingness

where i have searched for Love's Face forever?

The formless informs with every kiss of grace

that we bestow upon one another.

 

The lotus of the unborn and undying

Being folds open as the Sun streaming in

from someplace,

something,

some Something or other

that i do not know how to say

or communicate to you.

Water swept away in the Brightness of Night breaking

into a million million particles of Light

expanding

and dissolving

in one glance from You

is suddenly the entire Ocean of Bliss,

a Sea of tears and laughter and sorrow and joy

washing over and through my mind in one wave.

 

What a Lotus can be is what a lotus can be.

 

Being the Beauty left breathless in the dark

and the dawn commingling their Light,

i am merely a golden-throated flower

being held up against the backdrop

of time, space and the atom.

 

The lily-seed of "i" becomes the Sky

of every Lotus ever bloomed,

and we are ever-floating endlessly

upon the Heart-Sea of the Beautiful Being,

the Beautiful Beloved One.

i and Thou, Beloved Darling,

will soon sink into That.

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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