What the Buddha's thirty-two bodily marks mean?
Are they the three decades plus two to make
The universal number 15 (3+10+2)? Is this number
About his unequalled heavenly light (the number 9)
Incorporate with his earthly merits and virtues
Embodied in the even number six (1+5=6; 15-6=9)?
According to legends, his glorious predecessor
By the name of Lao-zi was curled in the purple haze
Upon his surmounting the five sacred mountain ranges
On his way to the western desert to become the Enlightened
Or a Buddha. His violet pupils' sight extends beyond
The Dipper's seven stars to total the number three (5+7=12; 1+2=3).
Due to this primordial number of dynamic developments,
His inner emanations and outer habits transformed
Into the figures and counting, and also transmigrated
Into the law of averages (as his surname is Li or the Law)
And the simple number one (as his honourable name is Zi or the First).
Thus, the Buddha's enlightening bodily signs are some kind of plan,
The diagram of innumerable physical forms modelled by the Creator
To help innumerable limited beings throughout all aeons and universes.
His enlightening mind is a clear-light mind while his enlightening body
Is the subtlest energy blowing that is inseparable from that pure mind.
Wherever his mind pervades, his enlightening body also pervades.
This shows us that the world has been created by 32 ways that form
The 32 mysterious paths of the Wisdom that are the attributes
Of the divine name -- the differentiation appearing
In the incomprehensibly organized world-system. It is also
The karmic liberation sought in the tests of the natural applications.
Always,
Deborah
Love ya!
Jane