My Job
Christians speak of Original Sin and
Buddhists of Primordial Ignorance
obscuring our Original Nature -
primordially pure, radiantly clear, lucidly awake.
My body and my mind know nothing
of this nature,
since their habits are otherwise,
without the blessing of lineage to point out
there is something more than sin and ignorance,
something those two continually defile and ignore.
My body and mind are ignorant,
but that’s just the illusion they prefer.
My job is to train them otherwise.
(10/22/2021, originally published in my 5th book of poems and stories, EXTRACTING THE ESSENCE, 2021)
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