All this alter paraphernalia is not needed

[Guest guest]

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Flowers, sesame seed, bowls of fresh water,

a tuft of kusa-grass, all this alter

paraphernalia is not needed

by someone who takes the teacher's words in

and honestly lives them.

 

Full of longing in meditation,

one sinks into a joy that is free

of any impulse to act and will not

enter a human birth again.

 

- Lalla

14th Century North Indian mystic

 

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From " Naked Song "

Versions by Coleman Barks

Maypop 1992

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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