Wednesday, February 24, 2010

pluck

Pluck out the Buddha eye
and sit in its hollow! -- Dogen

If thine eye offend thee,
pluck it out! -- Jesus

At some point, the eye of our
spiritual teacher becomes a glass eye.

We know this point in others
when we see them get all glassy-eyed.

It is harder to see in ourselves.

These days many revere themselves as in the know.

Ah Ha! we say -- they need some eye plucking.
Forgetting that the eye we see in others is our eye.

Pluck you.

2 comments:

  1. Yah? Well, pluck you too!!

    Actually, your point is very well taken, George. ;-)

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