Friday, May 23, 2008

Carving the Buddha


"Truthfulness is the main element of character."
-- Brian Tracy


We created him, in the arms of the celestial night. We bent down from the cups of petals in lotus flowers adrift on incense and falling water. The shine from stars was all around us, and even as we worked, we hummed and joked, dancing along in rhythm.

What does a Jupiter-Uranus sextile (the 2nd of 3 this year) offer to this process, the 21st, to open up such ambition, as to put a face to god? I have seen many, and sometimes none. What pushes us beyond the gods, to the light itself, to the formlessness of things? Pregnant possibilities and potential, all fluid, ever-flowing, picking up the petals of our seating like so many pearls, worlds on a cord around god's neck, wrist, thigh.

I have never really hoped for so much as just a meeting of my path, perfectly willing to traverse it once there. Strange to feel that the closer I get, the more faith it takes to embrace.

No comments: