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Poets Corner

Gregg Heathcote

Shinjin for the Steppenwolf : a flagrant Middle Way for those in two minds

Passionate self-immolation
Living leaving no residue
From this fiery fleshing out
Thoroughgoing irradiant space

Cool is the all-embracing reception
Compassion reflective within sheer emptiness
Yet arcs its smile upon the lusty pyre
And evenly so Namo Amida Butsu

(© Copyright Gregg Heathcote, 7 July 2001)

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