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b(raking)

raking, breakers, braking, suspended seaweed, violent coastal
storm, power outages, suspended particles, Buddha nature,
miasma, stuttered examination of phenomena

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Hui-Neng

"Originally there was no _Bodhi_-tree,
Nor was there any mirror.
Since originally there was nothing,
Whereon can the dust fall?"

in response to

"The body is like unto the _Bodhi_-tree,
And the mind to a mirror bright
Carefully we cleanse them hour by hour
Lest dust should fall upon them."

- Fung Yu-Lan, op.cit.

"Today we visited a breaker.
"It was the Blue Coal breaker in Ashley.
"The breaker was in ruins and we went in.
"The breaker boys would fall asleep and get caught in the
conveyers.
"The breaker is perhaps fifteen or twenty stories high.
"The boys would die around 15.
"The lights would stay on.

Tonight part of the house dark. We returned. Katski, nine cat.
Neighbors Tonight breaker dark. off. ghost plug, cut the
breaker, smash the fuse, cut the wires, you say the first, odd
melange of screams and cries, I imagine these, the dead air
edited out.

"We will take a boat to the rough storm-tossed ocean. We shall
set sail among towering waves, spume, flumes, seaweed and wrack
torn from the bottom, torn from the top, plunged into the air,
sprayed higher than any of us could believe. God save us
everyone. The seaweed crushed, torn up in the storm-tossed
ocean, rough among us. We pray to God we shall survive."

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