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To See Everything
Just As Atoms
Not as pillow and bed:
To see everything just as atoms:
The sky,
A knife,
A kiss,
A stone.
To see everything just as atoms
All wearing their ephemeral Buddha nature:
The butterfly wing,
The bicycle wheel
Moonlight,
Sonata #5.
from Already There
The Golden Dust Motes
Are Drifting
 In the morning
sunlight
Looking like space ships
As they zip through destiny
To some other moment.
WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?
Zen plays with them:
A puff of breath
Changes their future;
A tiny whisper causes a zag
Even when unseen.
They drift in majestic
silence
Feeling, like us,
gravity, eternity, and
Unspoken love.
from Already There
How To Make A Gnat
Surely the gnat is one of the least significant
creatures.
Surely Zen Nam could figure out something that simple.
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Zen wanted something to decorate the morning
With golden sunlit
Zigzags.
Where would he start?
(They are so tiny).
And then HOW WOULD HE MAKE IT FLY?
Then
How would he program it to defy all logic
And go all random and whirligig
With its brother and sister gnats
In an ecstatic cloud of micro-dancers?
Where to start?
from Already There
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