The Way is spiritual Truth and was originally without name or title
1--- O beautiful,
O tender I-ness forgive me!
2--- O Wonderful,
O lovable I-ness forgive me
3---O hunger that begets creation,
O wistful memory of myself,
O transient I- ness,
forgive me
4--- The peoples of the earth did I see,
all that had lived or will live,
and
their thoughts were upon their faces
5--- Beneath my feet did I seize space,
and that which seemed afar was near,
and beneath my feet I suppressed the mountains....
and
yet did the cool oceans rise harmlessly
to my nostrils
6--- And in all this land there was not one sound,
for my fingers held all time,
and in time are the fields of motion.
So that no atom stirred,
nor
did one audible wave afflict the ether
7--- And I saw the voices of men....
and I saw the beautiful patterns of motion....
but the world was as still
as death.
8--- And I saw the beauty as it liveth....
yet no color was upon the eye.
9--- The rose upon the bush was only a pale weed,
yet Red and Pink shook the shimmering twilight
with their loveliness....
and the soft perfume of memory
tinted the Void with
its essence.
10--- I saw the flight of the swallow,
rolling across dimension
like a silent surf.
11--- And as I looked,
I saw the emerald dye of the deep,
drawn from the ocean's waves....
and
even the whiteness melted
before the snow
on the mountaintop.
* #Zen
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