Heart Sutra

 

HEART SUTRA

O Dharma seeker, why do you

form a concept of True Emptiness,

when you could empty your mind

of all concepts?

This is why you cannot hear

your little green spirit guide calling,

who in this spell of deceiving twilight,

breath of February warmth,

 

makes his holy pilgrimage from

the dahlia pot on your back porch

to a skunk cabbage in the wetland,

to join the amphibian chorus,

where he sings in terraqueus delight,

one quaver in the emerald Sangha,

rehearsing their old favorite

for the April concert.

Friend, forget True Emptiness.
Just stop thinking and listen to this!
You might remember the name of

Earth’s first anthem, the song of Spring:

"Love is Wiser than a Raindrop’s Kiss

and Sadder than Sunrise in a Mist of Roses

When You Are Nothing

but a Frog.”