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September 29, 2008
the empty bowl
I have an empty bowl.
I bought it back from Rhodes specifically to be empty.
I protect it's emptiness, honouring it's calling to be so.
Sometimes, bowls cry out to be filled with stuff.
'Fill me! Cram me full of whatever!'
But not this one. This bowl likes to be empty.
My empty bowl resonates strongly with me at present.
As I sit with it, the space it contains is an aspiration; it's emptiness, my own.
Mine is a sparse consciousness, like soil tilled but bare.
But it's not despair. Not at all.
'Before some thing, no thing' as they say in the East.
What is - is space.
What shall be? Ah, well - that is always a stupid question.
Posted by Mr Bojangles at September 29, 2008 11:34 AM