{"id":637,"date":"2010-03-25T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T13:56:12","slug":"the-buddhas-last-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"The Buddha&#8217;s Last Instruction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something about this poem hit home&#0160; with me, and I hope there is something in this for you as well.<\/p>\n<p>Light and Love <\/p>\n<p>Sister Bridget<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;\">The Buddha&#39;s Last Instruction<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;\"> by Mary Oliver<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; font-family: Tahoma;\">\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">&quot;Make<br \/>\nof yourself a light&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">said the Buddha, <br \/><br \/>before he died.<br \/><br \/>I think of this every morning<br \/><br \/>as the east begins<br \/><br \/>to tear off its many clouds<br \/><br \/>of darkness, to send up the first<br \/><br \/>signal-a white fan<br \/><br \/>streaked with pink and violet,<br \/><br \/>even green.<br \/><br \/>An old man, he lay down <br \/><br \/>between two sala trees,<br \/><br \/>and he might have said anything,<br \/><br \/>knowing it was his final hour.<br \/><br \/>The light burns upward,<br \/><br \/>it thickens and settles over the fields.<br \/><br \/>Around him, the villagers gathered<br \/><br \/>and stretched forward to listen.<br \/><br \/>Even before the sun itself<br \/><br \/>hangs, disattached, in the blue air,<br \/><br \/>I am touched everywhere<br \/><br \/>by its ocean of yellow waves.<br \/><br \/>No doubt he thought of everything<br \/><br \/>that had happened in his difficult life.<br \/><br \/>And then I feel the sun itself<br \/><br \/>as it blazes over the hills,<br \/><br \/>like a million flowers on fire-<br \/><br \/>clearly I&#39;m not needed,<br \/><br \/>yet I feel myself turning<br \/><br \/>into something of inexplicable value.<br \/><br \/>Slowly, beneath the branches, <br \/><br \/>he raised his head.<br \/><br \/>He looked into the faces of that frightened crowd.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p><br \/><br \/><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something about this poem hit home&#0160; with me, and I hope there is something in this for you as well. Light and Love Sister Bridget The Buddha&#39;s Last Instruction by Mary Oliver &quot;Make of yourself a light&quot; said the Buddha, before he died.I think of this every morningas the east beginsto tear off its many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353,407,342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power-of-the-positive","category-quote-of-the-day","category-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}