{"id":4256,"date":"2008-12-16T02:42:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T00:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2008-12-16T02:42:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T00:42:27","slug":"on-cremation-of-chogyam-thungpa-vidyadhara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/on-cremation-of-chogyam-thungpa-vidyadhara\/","title":{"rendered":"Engang i New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kirn600span\"<\/p>\n

On Cremation of Ch\u00f6gyam Thungpa Vidyadhara<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u00a0noticed the grass, I noticed the hills, I noticed the highways,\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed the dirt road; I noticed the car rows in the parking lot\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed the ticket takers, noticed the cash and the checks and credit cards,\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed the buses, noticed mourners, I noticed their children in red dresses,\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed the entrance sign, noticed retreat houses, noticed blue and yellow flags\u00a0<\/em>
\nNoticed the devotees, their trucks and buses, guards in khaki uniforms,\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed the crowds, noticed misty skies, noticed the all \u2013pervading smiles and empty eyes \u2013\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed the pillows, coloured red and yellow, square pillows round and round \u2013\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed the Tori gate, passers-through bowing, a parade of men & women in formal dress \u2013<\/em>
\nNoticed the procession, noticed the bagpipe, drums, horns, noticed high silk head crowns and saffron robes, noticed the three piece suits,\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed the palanquin, an umbrella, the stupa painted with jewels the Colours of the four directions \u2013\u00a0<\/em>
\nAmber for generosity, green for karmic works,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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I noticed the white for Buddha, red for the heart \u2013\u00a0<\/em>
\nThirteen worlds on the stupa hat, noticed the bell handle and umbrella, the empty head of the white cement bell – Noticed the corpse to be set in the head of the bell \u2013\u00a0<\/em>
\nNoticed the monks chanting, horn plaint in our ears, smoke rising from astep the firebrick empty bells \u2013\u00a0<\/em>
\nNoticed the crowds quiet, noticed the Chilean poet, noticed a rainbow,\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed the guru was dead,<\/em>
\nI noticed his teacher bare breasted watching the corpse burn in the stupa,\u00a0<\/em>
\nNoticed morning students sad cross legged before their books, chanting devotional mantra\u2019s, Gesturing mysterious fingers, bells and brass thunderbolts in their hands,\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed flames rising above flags and wires and umbrellas and painted orange poles,\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed,\u00a0<\/em>I noticed the sky, noticed the sun, a rainbow around the sun, light misty clouds drifting over the sun \u2013\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed my own heart beating, breath passing through my nostrils\u00a0<\/em>
\nMy feet walking, eyes seeing,<\/em><\/div>\n
I’ve noticed smoke above the corpse,\u00a0<\/em>I’ve noticed fired monuments<\/em>
\nI noticed the path downhill, I’ve noticed the crowd moving toward the buses\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed food, lettuce salad, I noticed the teacher was absent,\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed my friends, I’ve noticed our car, I’ve noticed the blue Volvo,<\/em><\/div>\n
I’ve noticed a young boy hold my hand\u00a0<\/em>
\nOur key in the motel door, I noticed a dark room, I noticed a dream\u00a0<\/em>
\nAnd forgot, noticed oranges lemons and caviar at breakfast,\u00a0<\/em>
\nI noticed the highway, sleepiness, homework thoughts, the boy\u2019s nippled chest in the breeze\u00a0<\/em>
\nAs the car rolled down hillsides past green woods to the water.<\/em><\/div>\n
I noticed the sea, I noticed the music – I wanted to dance.<\/em><\/div>\n
\u00a9 Allen Ginsberg<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
\"jsag\"<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Allen med vores Joe, Bonds International, NYC, forsommer, 1981.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Cremation of Ch\u00f6gyam Thungpa Vidyadhara I\u00a0noticed the grass, I noticed the hills, I noticed the highways,\u00a0 I noticed the dirt road; I noticed the car rows in the parking lot\u00a0 I noticed the ticket takers, noticed the cash and the checks and credit cards,\u00a0 I noticed the buses, noticed mourners, I noticed their children … L\u00e6s videre Engang i New York City<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n