Asleep No More

The dawning day is like an open door for voyagers adrift in living stream to waken from the dream asleep no more. When out of slumber’s seas we’re cast ashore and consciousness resumes its heady beam, the dawning day is like an open door. With dialectic feet upon the floor the thinker frames a philosophic scheme in lieu of wakening asleep no more. Stargazers, poets, let their fancies soar into the realms beyond what things may seem, for dawning day is like an open door. Though myriads divinities implore, within our being lies the path supreme to reach awakenment asleep no more. Deep wisdom handed down from ages yore can teach us of enlightenment’s true gleam. The dawning day is like an open door to waken from the dream asleep no more. ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * Inspiration was derived from the following writing by Nichiren Daishonin… “The ordinary people, who inhabit the nine realms of dharmas, are wholeheartedly immersed in the sleep of the unenlightenment of not wanting to know. They are drowned in the dream of living and dying, as well as having forgotten what the wakefulness of the enlightenment of the original state is all about. They cling at all costs to what is going on in the dream. And they stray from one darkness to the next.” ~ Nichiren Daishonin (1279) From ~ “A Collation of the Layers of the Various Teachings of all the Buddhas of the Past, Present and Future as to Which Specific Doctrines are to be Discarded or Established” (So Kan Mon Sho) ~ translated by Martin Bradley [See site at dharmagateway.org] This writing has also been translated as ~ “The Teachings Affirmed by All Buddhas Throughout Time” (Sokanmon Sho) “Common mortals of the nine worlds are asleep in the mind’s innate delusion. Lost in a dream of the sufferings of birth and death, they forget the reality of original enlightenment. Attached to the rights and wrongs within their dream, they move from darkness into greater darkness.” ~ Nichiren Daishonin (1279)