Friday, March 28, 2008
Tibetan Monks
(image from source)
The Monks
The monks are crying.
In the vajra of their bodies
a stream of light runs
to heaven.
Someone has come
to block the flow,
to shut the inner source.
The monks are wounded,
their hearts are bleeding.
They cry for what they have lost,
their gift to the world.
Dorothy Walters
March 28, 2008
(On the news last night were pictures of Tibetan monks crying for their lost freedom to practice their true religion. One alert news photographer captured pictures of the scene before the Chinese militia dragged him away.
A vajra is an sacred instrument in Tibetan Buddhism. Handed down from ancient times, it is shaped like a wand with bulbs on each end. Although there are various interpretations of its symbolic meaning, it can be seen as representing the axis of the body, the path of the subtle energies as they rise from base to crown.)
