Dhamma of the Muse
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1 min readApr 12, 2017
Raining again — thoughts
an illusion suffuse with fire.
Dance with dukkha — disappear.
Master mudita, lay upon me muse,
may your dana make me eligible
in this life, an unmistakable recollection.
Fourth stanza: Excerpt from “Pause” (working title) from the Sestina Synthetica on Chalkboard.
Special thanks to Sestina Synthetica Master, Tamyka Bell.
This is the second in a three part series of poetry I was inspired to write with Pali words from the earliest extant writings of Buddhism. Here is the first one if you hadn’t seen it yet.
