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Beyond Innumerable Numbers
by Alexander Goldstein → (All Poetry by Alexander Goldstein)
Tuesday, July 26, 2016    Rated "G" by the Author.
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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.


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 Reviews of "Beyond Innumerable Numbers"
Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on July 28, 2016
You lost me...

Always,
Deborah

Reviewed on July 26, 2016
My son, a physics major, speaks of these numbers. I must share this with him.

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on July 26, 2016
The science of numerology is a vast and complicated (and esoteric) one, which I am a little familiar with in the Islamic tradition. It's amazing to think that simple numbers go far beyond their calligraphic strokes. Interesting. John


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