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Samadhi Rain
by Paul Sexton
freedom from anxiety that I have only experienced walking the deep red carpet of Lien Hoa Temple late in the year, after clocks have turned back, while a gentle almost hypnotic rhythmic fading rainstorm is tap-tapping an aluminum roof just outside the open window where a cool sweet breeze drifts in smoothly from a moist black night. on those loud warm evenings in July. When the air seems harsh, and unforgiving. that in recent years I have come to believe that Nirvana, can be found in an Autumn rainstorm, or a still dark night, but never in the bright hot Texas summer where the days are too long and nothing ever seems to stand still. Bhagavato Arahato Samma Sambuddhassa! |