Impenetrable Koan

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Impenetrable Koan

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
- Buddha

Word spread from sangha to sangha -
it is Dojin, Path of Love.
As a child he studied the Dharma,
sat face to wall his given mantra intoning
through the silent space.
He walked in meditation, slowly
heel to toe; again, again;

then slipped away to the distant mountain
renouncing both fear and desire,
sitting beneath the rocky crags
the years slow-crawling by,
his only visitors pendulous spiders,
and shadows creeping across cavern walls,
marking the days.

And now, Dojin, with one horrible scream
gone up in saffron flames.