Sunday, September 5, 2010

May you find something worth doing.

Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Cultural manifestations of the dharma aren't any more "true" than any other cultural manifestations. One need only look at all the great dharmic catastrophes of teachers of previous and current ages to come to terms with this.