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Desire Only Silence(Reflection on verse 517, Guru Vachaka Kovai)How true you are to say - 'Desire only Silence For in Silence there is nothing to desire' How much time did I waste before knowing this? Listen to the surface of the pond Where it meets the shard of glass Sit like the black river stone iris Elope with the blood of your veins Arrange your robes in a velvet patina Pat the fat hip of your empty rice bowl Loop your waist rope around a bell hole Hold your hand out for a rain drop Paint the happy blue boy who laughs At those with buried heads in the sand See as the little understandings come together That there is nothing to understand
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