Listen (Voice of Ione)
We are a river. We are a river of listening angels responsive to the least
noticeable sound of joy or sorrow. We are a river of spirits sounding prayers
into the depths of mystery. We are a river of smiling Buddhas forever sitting
in compassionate peace under one billion stars which appear shining as
the one great enraptured Bo tree. We are river... rive-ers, splitters of
all dualities into the multitudinous manifestations of human souls living,
dyding, suffering, delighting, bubbling into the ocean dream of the One,
the singlemost point of connection among all the droplets of water. We
are river.
"That Buddha's former vow was,
'After my passage into extinction,
wherever I am, wherever I go,
there may my purpose be to listen to dharma.'"
(from Spirit Dreams: Stories of the Singing Masks by Norman Lowrey,
presented at Ione's 2nd annual Dream Festival, October 25, 1997, Kingston,
NY. Quote from the Lotus Sutra)
See: Buddha's Ears at http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/buddha/buears.htm
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