(Practice that confirms things by taking the self to them is illusion: for things to come forward and practice and confirm the self is enlightenment. Those who greatly enlighten illusion are Buddhas. Those who are greatly deluded amid enlightenment are sentient beings. Some people continue to realize enlightenment beyond enlightenment. Some proceed amid illusion deeper into further illusion.)

 

Two Memos Circulating in the American Prescribed Iconoclasm Training Institute

 
 

1) A Proposal to Democratize Non-Duality

 
"Part of the beauty of compassion is that there is no way to standardize it.
…there is no way to subject it to strict administrative control ..." (Lewin 43).
(Note: The Institute has not approved this statement.)
 
"Is it true that one enters
the forest of a naked heart
with heart unclothed? "
 
(...and that nakedness is the forest...)  
"Could it be that one enters
the heart with bare feet?"
 
(...yet even possible answers
do not solve inquiry...)  
"Might those feet burn in bushes
emblematic of cognizance
too mature for what if
or so that's it !--?" No,
 
("...as well as not
something else...")
 
it dawns.

2) What the Receding Tide of a Shared Ocean Leaves

Setting sun does not leave the sky.
 
Yet neither this nor rusting
of West's last light worn
by the rising moon
as her robe of mourning
is its intention.
 
Below, there are enough leaf
emblems of autumn unfurled
for wind-mind to move
and mind's wind
to scrub clean
the grass bowl yard.
 
Where wind-feet
--the what
of a wondering mind-- run,
trees grasp ground
as ripened roots rest
in the knowledge that this
swirling of sandals, old
and worn as they are,
is pilgrimage enough.
 
The moon undresses
to minister to other
sides of the curve,
from
those some
to
some those.
Yet
 
the sky does not abandon her
as both become night.