Weekly Words of Wisdom
chosen by Lama Surya Das
for Dzogchen Center

6 November 2000

Buddha took some Autumn leaves
In his hand and asked
Ananda if these were all
The red leaves there were.
Ananda answered that it
Was autumn and leaves
Were falling all about them,
More than could ever
be numbered. So Buddha said,
"I have given you
A handful of truths. Besides
These there are many
Thousands of other truths, more
Than can ever be numbered."

From "The City of the Moon"
                    by Kenneth Rexroth

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