Saturday, December 30, 2017
"Sudden Insights"––poem by Dorothy
Sudden Insights
Sudden insights,
bursts of knowing––
where are they from?
Conclusive theories,
whole symphonies
arriving intact,
Einstein, Mozart,
you know the list.
Some say aliens arriving from other
planets,
some say from the termas,
texts or objects
hidden in rocks or earth or wood,
else embedded
in the psyche
even before birth,
now brought into the light,
What if such awareness rests
in all of us always,
ready to be discovered,
longing to be known.
What if we too
can access everything,
ready to be retrieved
like a safe of jewels
waiting for the right combination.
What would we do
with this immense revelation?
Would we simply vanish
in a flash?
How would we ever remember
the being who is us?
Dorothy Walters
December 29, 2017
Note: In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, termas are hidden teachings preserved in certain locations in nature or infused into the psyches of future masters (tertons), who will unveil them at the proper moment in history. The purpose of the terma is to revivify and disseminate the truth of the dharma in ages of confusion or forgetfulness. The tertons are those given the responsibility of unearthing and then spreading these fundamental principles among humankind.
(Image of Yeshe Tsogal from internet. She, along with a companion, hid many wisdom teachings (termas) to be discovered later.)
