Covering Mud With Straw

 

Existence does not conflict with emptiness.

“Unlimited Friendliness” is a way of understanding

one who covers mud with straw.

The generations pass over.

This is the great work always before you.

You are that one and everything else is that one.

Transform a single mountain of solid gold into two––

you’ll never find satisfaction.

 

 

31 December 2004

 

 

[Published in Mantra Winds: Poems 2004-2010.

© 2010 by Jim Cohn.]