Dream of the Unified Field

Quartet:

Shanavasa, Ananda,
Jorie Graham, Robert Louis Stevenson 

“Shanavasa asked Ananda,

‘What is the fundamental uncreated essence of all things?’ “

— Jorie Graham,
    “Relativity: A Quartet”
    in The Dream of the Unified Field:
    Selected Poems 1974-1994,
    Ecco Press, 1995

“Ananda to Shanavasa:
 ‘Buddha is Alive! Buddha is Alive!’

 Shanavasa to Upagupta:
 ‘Space is Consumed by Flaming Space.’ “

 — Table of Contents, Living Buddha Zen


Cover illustration
by Stephen Savage,
NY Times Book Review,
Feb. 2 (Candlemas), 2003

“We live the time that a match flickers.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, Aes Triplex

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on this date in 1850.