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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

De las palomas oscuras (Casida IX, A Claudio Guillén); Federico García Lorca

De las palomas oscuras

Por las ramas del laurel
vi dos palomas oscuras.
La una era el Sol,
la otra la Luna.
"Vecinitas", les dije,
"¿donde está mi sepultura?"
"En mi cola", dijo el Sol.
"En mi garganta", dijo la Luna.
Y yo que estaba caminando
con la tierra por la cintura
vi dos águilas de nieve
y una muchacha desnuda.
La una era la otra
y la muchacha era ninguna.
"Aguilitas", les dije,
"¿donde está  mi sepultura?"
"En mi cola", dijo el Sol.
"En mi garganta", dijo la Luna.
Por las ramas del laurel
vi dos palomas desnudas.
La una era la otra
y las dos eran ninguna.

Huang Po, ...illusion is non-existent..maybe..

ja, nothing to destroy, only stop running , see, listen, walk again
The arising and the elimination of illusion are both illusory. Illusion is not something rooted in Reality; it exists because of your dualistic thinking. If you will only cease to indulge in opposed concepts such as 'ordinary' and 'enlightened', illusion will cease of itself. And then if you still want to destroy it wherever it may be, you will find that there is not a hairsbreadth left of anything on which to lay hold. This is the meaning of: 'I will let go with both hands, for then I shall certainly discover the Buddha in my Mind.'

- Huang Po

[From: 'The Zen Teaching of Huang Po on the Transmission of Mind', translated by John Blofeld]

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