This article was inspired by an article in The Sun magazine about a Zen Buddhist monk and his principles for living.
When I am fully awake
And the constraints of reality
Become more than I can take
My mind implodes
And as liquidity flows out
My ego erodes
I become one with all things
I enjoy the peace
This feeling brings
I can hear
The earth herself speak
I no longer seek
To know the mind of God
Because it is fully revealed
As the capsule of my destiny
Becomes unsealed
I soar with the eagle
I share his sight
I understand why the flower
Attracts the bee
Because they are both me
When the sun recedes
We are plunged into night
I feel the crush
Of the nocturnal hunter’s
Deadly bite
In my enlightened soul
I am satisfied with my role
To be a speck
Floating before the Creator’s eye
I am not afraid to die
Because I know I have
An inevitable date
What I hope to achieve
Before my dying day
Is the perpetuation
Of this peaceful state
And teach my children
To turn this glorious key
And share in the oneness
Of inverted beauty
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