Thursday, October 2, 2008

You-niverse- a poem on Shurangama Sutra


You-niverse- a poem on Shurangama Sutra

To help you reading the poem, you firstly need to read
Maitreya Bodhisattva's executive summary in Shurangama Sutra and The voyage of the mind, please double check Shurangama Sutra for proper meaning! I always wonder if a bodhisattva reincarnated French invented the word “universe.” You can break universe into “you” and “nivers”. Nivers sounds like nirvana in French, where syllable "s" is not pronounced. Façade deceives!

”I went on until, to the ends of emptiness, all the lands of the Thus Come One, whether pure or defiled, existent or non-existent, were transformations appearing from within my own mind. 5:118
”The Buddha asks about perfect penetration. I was intent upon the contemplation that the ten directions come only from consciousness. When the conscious mind is perfect and bright, one enters the perfection of the real. One leaves behind reliance on others and attachment to incessant calculating and attains the patience with the non-production of dharmas. This is the foremost method.” 5:119


You-niverse
Once confusing thought as heart,
Deluded in flesh everyone wants,
Don’t know cadaver
Mountain and River,
Space and earth are
Inside the Wonder
Of Immaculate Hearty Heart!
Pity throwing away the clear blue deep,
Lingering on the drifting bit,
Worst seeing bubble as seven seas.

You should know better it is true!
Even space is in you hearty heart,
Like little cloudy dot on the sky blue vast!
Not to mention all the worlds,
Drifted, engulfed by space surround.
If one unlock the hearty heart,
Space around vanished it will!

In an executive summary Maitreya told,
All Budda’s lands, radiant or rot,
Just transformation of hearty heart!
Leaving Dependence,
and Discernment,
Peeling off ten dimensions,
Finding your hearty heart
'Cause *You-niverse is what you found!

If you just don’t believe me,
Check on table the dinner plat!
Spin it to see if the center will rotate?
Dependence the platter, you make it true;
Discernment deluded you wonder in vain!



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