Mosque of Xi'an in China (Photo: John Emigh)
For my lesson I took all of engendered existence
and reviewed it page after page.
In truth, I saw nothing there and read nothing
but the Real’s Essence and the Real’s essential tasks.
How long this talk of bodies, dimensions, directions?
Until when this discussion of minerals, animals, plants?
Only one Essence is realized–not “essences.”
This illusory manyness comes from the tasks and the attributes…
