“How to go to the Tao Temple”
That’s the title of an amazing poem by K. Satchidanandan.
Sharing a few lines from the same…
Don’t lock the door.
Go lightly like the leaf in the breeze
along dawn’s valley.
If you are too fair
cover yourself with ash
If too clever, go half-asleep.
That which is fast
will tire fast:
be slow, slow as stillness.
Be formless like water.
Lie low, don’t even try to go up.
Don’t go round the diety.
Nothingness has no directions,
no front nor back.
Don’t call It by name,
Its name has no name.
No offerings: empty pots
are easier to carry than full ones.
No prayers too: desires
have no place here.
Love the lines at the end of this stanza – “No prayers too: desires have no place here.“…
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Beautiful.
And it reminds me of my favourite poem which I too shared of late.
No prayers too: desires
have no place here.
Greatness !!!
Beautiful, well written poem
@ Tulika – Yeah remember that post of yours. The poem was beautiful
(don’t remember if I commented on the same). More importantly that post of yours prompted me to post something along the same lines (in my case this is officially a filler post… 
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@ Everybody – K. Satchidanandan has a facebook page and you can also find his other works (as well as the complete poem “How to got to the Tao Temple”) on various poetry sites on the net.
beautiful……….
be open, be patient, willingness to learn (empty cup) you need these to enter the temple this is what conveyed in this poem rite ?
@ Vignesh – yup – that and a lot more…
“Nothingness has no directions,
no front nor back.”
This was beautiful, and uplifting, glad to have read it.
It absolutely harmonize with the foregoing essence