The Samadhi of a Golden Lotus

By David Hōkai Abbott, a prisoner

To daily fresh touch the the-thousand things

and the World beneath your feet

is to step off the hundred-foot pole;

For neither is there vertical, horizontal,

emptiness, time, or space within the

open-hand;

But, Only the silent illumination reflects

even a profound and actualized light of a

Golden Lotus, within its clear-spirit

Wholeheartedly.