111th Chorus

I didn’t attain nothing
When I attained Highest
                Perfect
                Wisdom
         Known in Sanskrit as
         Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi

I attained absolutely nothing,
Nothing came over me
       nothing was realizable –

In dropping all false conceptions
       of anything at all
I even dropped my conception
       of highest old wisdom
And turned to the world
       a Buddha inside,
And said nothing.

People asked me questions
about tomatos robbing the vine
and rotting on the vine
and I had no idea
what I was thinking about

             and abided
          in blank ecstasy


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