” I’ve been in trains
&
busses
for eighteen hours you see”
“They know”
I speak with the voice of Experience
Ontbijt op bed
in het restaurant
of
op het dakterras.
Er is weer iemand in de bar
dat kan gezellig worden
kan je nagaan als er hier mensen zijn.
Dag & nacht
de Monkey Temple ahead
somebody got enlightened there
(is Enlightenment really that eh…
difficult?!)
“Just follow your nose” she said
(is that what your Guru told you?)
” I will, driver take me to the Chang!˚” ˚chang=tibetaans bier
I walk around the manifest representation
of the non-manifest
the prayer-rolls turn the mind turning
nothing personal but I lived among lama’s
long enough
to last me a life-time.
(will you hold my hands
they’re terribly trembling
sometimes
will you hold them sometimes?
will they ever stop trembling!?)
Did you ever have the idea
I look at the empty sky
I am crying
“Why are you crying?”
“let’s have another beer, Baba!”
( I really don’t know,
beyond words?)
si sum ladji ming chö neh
linggyi chakri ling chö neh
shiva shiva shiva
om namah shivaya
that you might actually have met
De dochters van Mara
wassen mijn kleren,
houden mijn kamer schoon
&
tillen hoog
met gesloten deuren
hoog op hun tenen wankelend
hoog boven op de kast
ook ik wankel:
Brahmacharya comes natural
(no jumping)
Ze nodigt me uit voor een Yak-steak
in de Yak & Yeti
I’m holding the best in Kathmandu:
riksha-wallah: Direct Connection
I didn’t know
there were any Government shops
in Lucknow
rather convenient really,
God?
