Prajnaparamita

A leaf

Swirls, swirls, swirls

Swirls and submerges

In a whirlpool

Descending into the vortex

Like scrolls of the transcendental teachings of a sutra

That open on another shore

Of another river

Within a river

The immediate pure presence

Overflowing the eroding banks

Of time

Upon a time

Inside a vortex

Within a vortex

Upon a stream

Within a stream

Upon a dream

Within a dream

Reaching shores beyond shores

Of wisdom beyond wisdom

Riding infinite tiers of curving space

Inside a Whirlpool of flux

And the compulsion of existence,

The cycles of life

A heartbeat and a breath

Of the divine illusion,

All physical reality a manifestation of spirit

Carpeting the world in a dream

Careless as a dragonfly
Riding for a while upon a leaf in a whirlpool

Before it takes wing into the air

Leading to shores on the other side

Waiting to be explored

As the world burns:

From the river’s point of view

The world is on fire

Rippling before the fractal view of the dragonfly

On the winding river of wind

Carrying everything on

Gone, gone

Gone far beyond

To  the wisdom On the other Shore

Of which no Words or Visions
Pertain