Make Light
mountains which lie horizontally and those which stand vertically
celestial rivers and earthly rivers
those which depend on matter and those which depend on the immaterial worlds
in which space is seen as earth
differences in the way that the sun, moon and stars are seen by human beings and gods:
the views of all creatures are not the same.
however prior to the sprouting of creation in regard to the sameness of experience,
you are also like this and I am also like this.
consider it on a slow, slow spring day sitting by a bright window.
passing instantaneously through suppositions of the common world:
the moment of consciousness when nets and cages are broken
make light of kindness and love.
Light up the cosmos.
consider it on a slow, slow spring day sitting by a bright window.
(Found poetry/literary collage from Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo, Book 2, Nishijima/Cross translation. © 1996)
