Tricycle Daily Dharma April 19, 2013

Daydreams of a Poet It is possible to take our existence as a ‘sacred world,’ to take this place as open space rather than claustrophobic dark void. It is possible to take a friendly relationship to our ego natures, it is possible to appreciate the aesthetic play of forms in emptiness, and to exist in this place like majestic kings of our own consciousness. But to do that, we would have to give up grasping to make everything come out the way we daydream it should.   - Allen Ginsberg, “Negative Capability: Kerouac’s Buddhist Ethic”