DHARMA SPIN: Some Reflections on the Wheel of Life IMAGE: Images of a strangely fractured wheel which still maintains a semblance of integrity. Ron: A fractured wheel – isn't that's an apt way of describing our lives? Linda: Perhaps so, but I choose to celebrate the miracle that despite the cracks we still manage to function. Lis: Indeed. I think we should calmly accept whatever broken fragments life offers. I doubt whether things will ever fit together in any way that we expect. Lex: Perhaps there's good reason for that: "we" aren't meant to do the fitting. Only a Higher Power can . . . Ron: (cynically) Higher Power? Isn't that which each dominant creed claims to possess? It is almost laughable to see so many different people claim some "special" or "exclusive" conduit to the divine. That's merely a pathetic power ploy! Lex: I prefer to believe a Higher Power is already in each person's hearts: anything else is an idol. However, just as clouds appear to obscure the sun does our greed, lust, and sloth obscure access to the inner light. Of that light, no one can claim ownership. ==================================================================================== from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: Some thoughts about wholeness, fragmentation, and fissure. KEYWORDS: wheels of life, pursuing wholeness, sacred wheel of dharma, higher powers Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ) Begun: 2001 in Tokyo, Japan ✠ Finished: 2021 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/LastPoems/play.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/LastPoems/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/LastPoems/vanities.htm