MANTRAS
Through the years . . . now today and always a “presence”
appearing in moments “unselected” and moments sought for.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
—Robert Frost, “Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Leagues of sky silent lie,
blue and free, calling me.
Where the horizon fair,
binds earth and air.
Cloud ships gaily,
venture daily,
on the silent sea. - eagle rock (Los Angeles),California ,
1931, kindergarten, spring semester.
At age four years-ten months
blue and free, calling me.
Where the horizon fair,
binds earth and air.
Cloud ships gaily,
venture daily,
on the silent sea. - eagle rock (Los Angeles),
I am Wu Hoo Git! I’m tired of classics! I long for the
free air of life! / Longing for the free
air of life, always and forever, no doubt, a given. / A year at UCLA in 1943-44 before induction into the
army / first line spoken as the
juvenile, Wu Hoo Git in George C. Hazelton and Benrimo’s “Yellow Jacket” in
Royce Hall 170 theatre-in-the-round, in March, 1944.
Oh God, it’s wonderful. I feel as if I have the taste of
blood in me mouth, the taste of the blood of me enemies, the taste of the blood
of the men who taught me to love their laws and hate life. I that have warm
blood and the laugh of a giant! / playing Denis Dillon in Paul Vincent Carol’s “The White
Steed” in Royce Hall 170, never-t0-be forgotten declaration longing for the
free air of life,
The blood of me
enemies—always would it be so, had been so—men (and/or women) who would
teach me to love their laws and hate life. “I that have warm blood and the
laugh of a giant. . .” and the never-ceasing desire to celebrate life.
Silent hum of people
chanting Nam-Myoho Renge Kyo entering Myohoji Temple ,
turning to friends, saying, “Ive been here before.”
and
A Group of Immigrants as they fulfill the
requirements of entrance into the new country. Consciously
accepting the ways of a new stage of experience, in readiness for the
opportunities it will present. . . We find ourselves in a period of transition. We have to imitate, yet
retain our inner integrity. – rising sign (eastern horizon) at moment of
“accepting” object of worship Nichiren Shoshu of America at Myohoji Temple,
Etiwanda, California October 24, 1976.
December 5, 1977, Brentwood ,
California :
an albatross feeding from the hand of a sailor
keynote: The overcoming of fear and
its rewards
Persons who radiate perfect harmlessness can call the
wildest creatures to them . . . Every
living entity plays a role in the world’s ritual if existence . . . the
communion of love and compassion can bring together the most disparate lives.
Rudhyar: At this last stage of the fifty-sixth sequence we
are presented with a picture extending the ideal of peace and happiness through
culture so it now includes all living organisms on this planet. The power of such a culture of harmlessness
and compassion generates trust everywhere.
/ “Original Intent” Promises
Made in Past Lives, as “Five Realms of Human Destiny “discovered.”
1982, reading the New York Times Sunday Supplement,
September 26, “Beyond Newton
and Einstein / on the New Frontier of Physics” by Timothy Ferris, visiting
professor at the University of Southern California School of Journalism, the
author of “Galaxies.”
“These [unified]
theories which stand on the very frontier of physics, are most precisely not
expressed in words, but as mathematical equations. They imply that all the known forces in nature are manifestations of
one basic interaction, and that once, long ago, all were part of a single
universal force or process.
Nothingness contains all of being, writes the physicist,
Heinz R. Pagels in his book “The Cosmic Code.” “All of physics – everything we
hope to know – is waiting in the vacuum to be discovered.”
And this from The
Threefold Lotus Sutra, Sutra of Innumerable Meanings, Preaching:
“Bodhisattvas, if they want to learn and master the doctrine of Innumerable
Meanings, should observe that all laws were originally, will be, and are in
themselves void in nature and form; they are neither great nor small, neither
appearing nor disappearing, neither fixed nor movable, and neither advancing
nor retreating; and they are nondualistic, just emptiness. . .”
discovering hui-neng,
“enlightenment here and now” at Rissho Kosei-kai ,
in early 1990s:
. . . In this enlightened awareness, we can all see the
marvelous wonder of our universe, blemishes and all, and find our home and
comfort in a cosmos that is magically a part of us, and us a part of it. This
interpenetration of the individual in the universe is what the Buddha’s
teachings are all about. This is their scope and majesty.
“Inner Worlds,
Outer Worlds” “Samadhi” and Samadhi 2” films of Daniel J. Patrick most recent
treasure trove of “Mantras”
and yet, somehow the most “ancient of mantras” in
this life seems to say it all. “Leagues
of sky, silent lie, blue and free, calling me. Where the horizon fair binds
earth and air. Cloud ships daily venture gaily on the silent sea.”
The adventure
continues each day, fueled by living with “The Threefold Lotus Sutra“. . .
“. . .for I have
promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. . . “