Android

Your body is in front of a CPU
Your eyes monitor reality
You think and process and send out
Waiting for the pings to strive
You live in a mass of data bases
A holodeck of your own device
You prayed for this, remember
There was the book about fitting memory chips to the brain
To create human computers
That could link to the world's net domain
And we thought the android name
Was not too fit
Enough of it
We are the processors of living DNA
Wrapped around in a sylix
To the core of the material frame
The sorce of time and knowledge
The well of wisdom's flame
There in the many visions
We transform what none can name
Hey!
I saw you a long time ago.
And I wrote the code in the sky
To make your dream a reality
Don't ask me why
The questions of King Malinda
And the Nagarjuna Python Agora train
Bound in the halo of starlight
Off on the midnight train
The wheel will spin
And spin again
There by the gate gate para gate parasamgate
Of the gates of the places we live
-C Wilkinson

gate gate

the story

the carp had a long standing agreement with a turtle

the turtle who holds the world on his back

said, one day after a successful game of chance

craps, maybe, or poker after dinner

with a cigar i digress,

he said

oh Sariputra, the world honored one, says

enlightenment comes many ways

in a flash

like the schriven phoenix

zazen

realized simply

stumbled over in the dark even

like an award

if you, my friend fish, he said to the carp

should jump over the gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi soha

you will become a dragon.

after many attempts much focus and pure prayer from the heart

the little fish jumped over the gate gate in the heart sutra

what happened then said all the little boys and girls

and creatures listening

the carp was a carp no more

the carp was a dragon

and you know what else said the turtle

tayata om ...

and that is the end of this story.

-Sherab Wongmo

Photo Rob Ireton, Creative Commons license, http://www.flickr.com/photos/aoisakana/291995799/