RAINBOWS AND WATERFALLS

 

Place flowers here before the Shrine

That honors the Enlightened One—

Although He is not anywhere.

And let us henceforth cease to care

About the ego that dissolves

Like a rainbow on a waterfall.

 

The wise see each phenomenon

As like a bubble or mirage,

And so escape the King of Death.

They liken all things unto breath,

Or dreams out of the depths recalled—

Or rainbows on a waterfall.

 

He is profound, immeasurable;

He clings to nothing, He is null.

Behold the Ever-Vanishing,

The Ever-Present, glimmering

Like sunlight on the sea at dawn—

Or a rainbow on a waterfall.