I take the view that everything can be our teacher – if we take that view. So when I go out, I pay attention to the lessons brought in the shape of other beings, human and non-.
My book of poems and prose poems, Bardo, includes some (if you click on the cover icon to the right it will take you through to the publisher's site and, with any luck, my page and some sample poems).
Here's a teaching from the Canus tribe!
dog
sutra
sky is a permanent question
gods come in thunder and lightning
every trail has two possible endings
anyone you meet is a friend until proven
otherwise
nonetheless, do not trust where you land up
until you’ve seen a winter, met those who consider it theirs
on the path a stray, your alter ego,
follows you home under the stars
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wolf
sutra
even in this wastelot of a pen, this wolf
is a poem: all claw and sinew; at rest, utterly relaxed; otherwise alert and
muscular, ready to leap and spring; lean and fit and even in play fully awake,
no superfluous weight or unnecessary action
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