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Contemplative Moon Mood

Contemplative Moon Mood

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The blossoms on the plum limb disappear

As slowly as the moon is rising.   Day

Allows our sight of them but beauty sheer

As theirs begins to fade and sheer away

As night comes on.  The crescent moon is not

Enough to let us watch the blooms in dark

Spring night-time hours.  This moon and night-time plot

Against our worship as the plotting, stark

In consequence, harms our meditation.

So if the Buddha nature is in all,

These items then complete consternation

In anomaly.  Religion turns to scrawl.

  What use is Buddha if he brings this state

    Together?  This is what we contemplate.

© Phillip Whidden

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