May 2012

The World is a flower.

Gods are flowers.

Enlightened ones are flowers.

All phenomena are flowers.

Red flowers, white flowers, green flowers,

yellow flowers, black flowers,

all the different kinds of the colors of

flowers, all the different kinds

of love's shining forth.

Life unfolds from life and returns to life.

Such an immense universe! Oh many lives!

Flowers of gratitude, flowers of sorrow,

flowers of suffering, flowers of joy,

laughter's flowers, anger's flowers,

heaven's flowers, hell's flowers.

Each connected to the others

and each making the others grow.

When our real mind's eye

opens this world of flowers,

all beings shine,