<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389941" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Buddha in the Womb</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bobbing in the waters of the womb,<br>little godhead, ten toes, ten fingers<br>& infinite hope,<br>sails upside down through the world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My bones, I know, are only a cage<br>for death.<br>Meditating, I can see my skull,<br>a death's head,<br>lit from within<br>by candles<br>which are possibly the suns<br>of other galaxies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know that death<br>is a movement toward light,<br>a happy dream<br>from which you are loath to awaken,<br>a lover left<br>in a country<br>to which you have no visa,<br>& I know that the horses of the spirit<br>are galloping, galloping, galloping<br>out of time<br>& into the moment called NOW.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why then do I care<br>for this upside-down Buddha<br>bobbling through the world,<br>his toes, his fingers<br>alive with blood<br>that will only sing & die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a light in my skull<br>& a light in his.<br>We meditate on our bones only<br>to let them blow away<br>with fewer regrets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flesh is merely a lesson.<br>We learn it<br>& pass on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389941" data-title="The Buddha in the Womb de Erica Jong" data-description="Bobbing in the waters of the womb, little godhead, ten toes, ten fingers & infinite hope, sails upside down through the world. My bones, I know, are only a cage for death. Meditating, I can see my skull, a death's head, lit from within by candles..."></div> </div> </div>

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