Water, a liter & ½ per day, plus tea
in a minimum-security prison-like or monastery existence
its vow of
silence designed to limit the parameters
of your skull/get to
roots of madness & demonstrate anicca anicca anicca.
In the hall
its atmosphere is breathing, sangha & sensations
dark & light, moist, dry, itchy, burning, gross or subtle, the
slowness
of anicca (the rising up & passing away) in the case of, say, tinittus w/
roots into past generations, deep heredity, tests your skill to change.
Parts below the sports sections, potato chips & marijuana are
trembling w/ a subtle energy vibration always there always there.
The
day begins before dawn
splits the Dipper's descent into the foggy treeline.
The hawks glide w/ fir
trees in the background, someone starts to
fill the hall
w/ the scent of sweetgrass, the
air now food
& everything besides breath & sensations just
noise.
The red-tailed hawks demonstrate the
sky & its stage of fearless grace as one
sinks straight down effortless
into
the area above firs as the blue white grandfather mountain is a
light in the background soon to radiate & reflect the sunset.
The voice of a householder/guru emanate
words of impermanence, equanimity, craving, aversion, I
remain dynamic thoughts crashing in the chaotic surf of my mind.
Memory is always a pain (sensation) what
aches to be released, balloon-like into the day sky or
wherever
it may be of better use it
is brought up silent & dangerous & once it
touched a nerve you can react or not, it's still headed home.
6:37A - 8.13.02
Starter phrases taken from pg 263 of
Reversible Monuments & Gloria Gervitz