Tuesday 19 March 2013

'All life,' said the Buddha, 'is sorrowful'; 
and so, indeed, it is. 
Life consuming life: 
that is the essence of its being, 
which is forever a becoming. 
'The world,' said the Buddha, 'is an ever-burning fire.' 
And so it is. 
And that is what one has to affirm, 
with a yea! a dance! 
a knowing, solemn, stately dance 
of the mystic bliss beyond pain 
that is at the heart of every mythic rite.