Singing Image of Fire A hand moves, and the fire’s whirling takes different shapes: All things change when we do. The first word, “Ah,” blossoms into all others. Each of them is true. –Kukai (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, 36) Kukai (774-835) [was] . . . the founder […]
Delirious Joy
The great sea has set me in motion, set me adrift, moving me like a reed in a river. The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I’m carried away trembling with joy. –Uvavnuk (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, p.123) “Uvavnuk (mid-19th-early […]