### Ode to the Heart Sutra *First published on 20240605* --- my heart grows every time it breaks every crack wounds my soul deeply and the power of my outpouring compassion gives me the strength to move mountains truly, dukkha is a teacher most patient when one learns to listen and metta is the sweetest salve for misery that i can't give away fast enough i see through my fears and dreams false promises and trivial obsessions all i hereby relinquish ideas and possessions all they do is obscure my view of truth truth is right there, not even hiding it is not for me to gain or lose i am born from it, into it, made of it i realise yet again i need only truth it is like the earth that mothers me i embrace the earth now with every fibre of my being dear one, can you feel my joyful tears at your feet? --- ---