RAINBOWS AND WATERFALLS
Place flowers here before the Shrine
That honors the Enlightened One--
Although He is not anywhere.
And let us henceforth cease to care
About the ego that dissolves
Like a rainbow on a waterfall.
The wise see each phenomenon
As like a bubble or mirage:
They will escape the King of Death.
They liken all things unto breath,
Or dreams out of the depths recalled--
Or rainbows on a waterfall.
Profound is He: immeasurable;
He clings to nothing; He is null.
Behold the Ever-Vanishing,
The Tathagata beckoning
Like a line upon the water drawn,
Or a rainbow on a waterfall.
