A bedtime verse for tonight: Buddha in Glory

Published May 31, 2010 | By Debra

Buddha In Glory (Rainier Maria Rilke 1875-1926)

Center of all centers, core of all cores,

almond self-enclosed and growing sweet-

all this universe, to the furthest stars

and beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;

your vast shell reaches into endless space,

and there, the rich thick fluids rise and flow.

Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night,

blazing high above your head.

But in you is the presence that

will be, when all the stars are dead.

(Source: The Enlightened Heart An Anthology of Sacred Poetry Edited by Stephen Mitchell,P.131)

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