The New Cathedral
- A new cathedral will arise
- out of our hearts and in our lives
- out of the fertile deep dark earth,
- breaking through the layers of stone.
- Breaking the hard unyielding layers,
- Fracturing the darkness, smashing the barriers
- Breaking with a mighty sound, a great lions roar!
- Bursting with a single voice, to up in the heavens soar!
- Out of the earth, into the heavens, rising in the sky.
- A Cathedral of the mind, burning brightly with the law,
- Burning off the patina of fear, shining through the lies,
- An altar of seven kinds of precious jewels,
- consecrated by uncountable millions billions of lives,
- A foundation adamantine, stronger than steel.
- Drinking a pure law, finding many paths to heal.
- Purifying offerings of uncountable beings,
- all of them Buddha's to be,
- all of them emancipated and free!
- A million billion teachers,
- a million billion truths to share.
- Sending out a beacon of light,
- penetrating everywhere.
- All of them roaring with the same voice,
- rising from beneath the ground,
- to assemble in the air!
Chris