Preface by the Translator
§ Sloka One Sweet Talk in the Syrene Limb
Stanzas 1 – 7
1 So enter by the living dream the secret
2 Time, let’s suppose, flows and
3 Asuramaya lived a double life.
4 Assigned, not chosen.
5 Then is the moment when the Blue Prince
6 Suppose then that time does flow and,
7 The counsel of the Blue Prince
§ Sloka Two Walking the Alameda
Stanzas
8 - 11
8 The day we were all shot with neutrinos
9 Asuramaya sighed.
10 If silence be the ground of seeing let the light
11 “But the dharma is entirely impersonal - ”
§ Sloka Three Aengus and Etain
Stanzas 12 - 24
§ Sloka Four Prodigal Heart
Stanzas 25 - 41
§ Sloka Five The Physics of Beauty
Stanzas 42 - 52
Nature is not natural—it is the creation of gods, it is divine. Everything that is in the world shares that condition, everything shares the powers, the great spirits that rule existence from the air. It is the same with words. Whoever pronounces words puts power in motion. That is what the Ashaninka is forced to live in harmony with the powers of this world, of those worlds. The Ashaninka harmonizes with those powers in order to be able to hold within a single body both his material and spiritual bodies.
- Cesar Calvo, The Three Halves of Ino Moxo