The No-Self of
Buddhism
a ghostly
presence hovering near
me, filling me
with a dread I cannot
explain and
want it to go away; what
is it? Where did
it come from? And
how can I dispel
it? I go to bed
with this
ghostly presence, and all
night long it
works its mood into
my dreams, and
I wake up fatigued;
what to do? I
write, but cannot;
I read, but
cannot; I watch podcasts,
but cannot;
and I go for walks, taking
my ghostly
presence with me. How
to process it,
I don’t know; but if it
doesn’t go
away soon, I may have
to go to
sanctuary where even God
cannot reach
me, my special space
of no-place
where I have no I, only
a very stark
awareness of being; and
I wonder to
myself as I walk the trail
again, here in
Tiny Beaches, is that
the no-self of
Buddhism?
Tuesday, March
26, 2023
Georgian Bay,
Ontario
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