LOTUSLAND
For Buddhists:
‘The Floating World’
Is our prosaic world
Transformed by the Awareness
Of Being.
They Imagine:
Our divine selves
Emerging from its murky depths
Like Lotus blossoms
From a Lake.
Such Imagery recalls
The Mystics notion of Reality
In which the prayerful
Are Pierced
By an Elucidating Light.
It is not Necessary
To believe in either notion
But both are useful prompts:
All power lies within us
As we open our Hearts to Grace.
It is then that
The Lotus Flower
Engulfs us
In the Divine Luminosity
Of its Unfolding.
L O T U S L A N D I I
A Void
Exists
Somewhere
Within the Abdomen.
It is the
Phantasmagorical
Location
Of Our Being.
Of Our Presence
And of Our Attention.
Nested within
The Lotus Blossom.
Our Consciousness
Rooted
In the effulgent bowl
Of a Flower.
From this shallow declivity
Arise Mystical filaments
That Fly to
Worlds beyond Worlds.
To a Universe
Of All Things
Held In a web
Of their Consciousness.