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

A Newborn Baby

“A newborn baby...is it born with all six consciousnesses.” My first art teacher said, “A work of art is finished when none of the origina...