Shade
Light and shade are ancient human concepts. The sun gives us the light and heat which sustain us. That same light and heat can cause us great pain and catastrophe. Man's appreciation of shade predates man himself. It is an animal instinct to get out of the midday sun. And, it is an animal instinct which draws us out into the sunlight.
Light is a metaphor for truth. Shade is a metaphor for dishonesty. Learning to live in full light and also shade our immediate passions and reactions is a way of looking at practice. Those who live entirely in the light with all their human and animal behaviors are the celebrities in the pop media. Those who live in the shade all the time, like former Vice-President Dick Cheney, become inhuman creatures with no sign of human dignity or human failing.
Those who learn the Middle Path know when to stay in the light and when to rest in the shade.
the light just like loopapers roll down resting on the tail the shades heavy damp stopped in circulation
ReplyDeletebehind the light tapped
there where steps stopped
anguish angled and agonising all
banged into each other
at twilight the canis lupus became humanus in fact
faces changed as was time for a play
the carnival of prized powers and shamans shaded by The Times
ahh...the turnover of pilows
leaves your head cold and ears bigger
grandmas and redhoods of newaged rescue from hunters wil they save you
the vulpesvulpes around neck
tied and tardy let me pull
as in whitelight so in shade all colours the same hidden and not
cannot be a bigger sun and the moon
saving its rose but that another story