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No road shows the way,
Kotaro said in a poem, the road
follows behind.
When Su Tung-p'o was
an old man, his house burned down.
He laughed, "Now I can see the stars!"
This world is only process, a single
monumental motion
without beginning, without end.
We like to think this world is ours,
but we belong to it,
to a world just being born.
And if, as I pass,
I should look you in the eye,
do not be afraid: I want
only to glimpse the emptiness
at the center of your heart,
I want to reach for you
because I know,
as you do, we might never have met.
I have not been to Jerusalem,
but Shirley talks about the bombs.
I have no god, but have seen the children praying
for it to stop. They pray to different gods.
The news is all old news again, repeated
like a bad habit...
A way that can be named
is not the way. Each word reflects
the Spirit which can't be named. Each word
a gift, its value in exact proportion
to the spirit in which it is given.
Thus spoken, these words I give
by way of Lao Tzu's old Chinese, stolen
by a humbe thief twenty-five centuries later.
If only we could touch
the things of this world
at their center, if we could only hear
tiny leaves of birch
struggling toward April,
then we would know.
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