Status Report 30
Good and bad been flowing
and bad made good.
Reality keeps getting me stoned
then messes with that
or breaks this
to see which hoop I choose or lose
and do I hump or loop
and if I groan it lumps lumps on
but shrug a smile and more stone sown
so I’m heading safe
borrowing this gatha
wife taped to morning mirror:
“Waking up this morning I smile
knowing there are 24 brand new hours before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment,
and look at beings with eyes of compassion.”
Think it’s Thich Nhat Hanh’s.
Anyway, I gotta gatha
and sutra on.
– Smith, 7.2.2015
Gatha pronounced GOT-a.
per Wikipedia —
Gatha is a Sanskrit term for “song” or “verse”, especially referring to any poetic metre which is used in legends, and is not part of the Vedas but peculiar to either Epic Sanskrit or to Prakrit. The word is originally derived from the Sanskrit/Prakrit root gai, which means, to speak, sing, recite or extol.
A sutra is an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a text in Hinduism or Buddhism. Literally it means a thread or line that holds things together and is derived from the verbal root siv-, meaning to sew. The word “sutra” was very likely meant to apply quite literally to these texts, as they were written down in books of palm leaves sewn together with thread. This distinguishes them from the older sacred Vedas, which until recently were only memorised, never committed to paper.
We have big at our fingers, so often do little with it.
