Monday, March 28, 2022

The Red Thread

Why can’t clear-eyed bodhisattvas sever the red thread?

Not even an ocean of silence
and stillness can quench it;
Not even vast emptiness
can exhaust it—
it splashes out over
the whole cosmos, vibrant,
passionate, alive!
——Peg Syverson

Great and Vast

The Chinese character for ‘great’ can also be written with a dot. In Shinto they say, “Placing the dot in the center is the secret of Shint...