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1. Alex Nodopaka says:

   August 7, 2014 at 1:55 pm

   And the cleaned written version. It’s so satisfying to listen to one’s own voice, I feel Buddha!… aha!

   Those who have spent ten or twenty years brushing aside the weeds looking for the way and yet have not see the Buddha nature often say they are trapped by oblivion and excitement. What they don’t realize is that the substance of this very oblivion and excitement is itself Buddha nature.

   -Kao-feng

   The Nature of Buddha

   Sweeping the staircase steps
   one after the other downward
   counting dead leaves
   I imagine my arms to be branches

   that wrap my waist over and over
   with a longer and longer sash.
   I imagine myself a fat tree trunk
   Assigning the leafy detritus

   into the organic compost bin
   I imagine myself a fungus.
   And when the mushrooms,
   delicately sautéed and digested

   I imagine a satiated non-deity
   squatting behind that tree
   trapped by oblivion but thrilled
   by Buddha nature.

   ~~~
   Alex Nodopaka

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