Tag: Hampi

  • Hampi pt 2: Festival Season (Into the Bardo)

    Hampi pt 2: Festival Season (Into the Bardo)

    xlv i am cocoonedin eternal hibernation,far gone. deeplysinkingfalling in the slumbers,into the Bardo. absorptioninto nothingness. neither hereneither there.  ultimate absorption. i hear under desert ambience,3 piercing cries, a vulture’s alarm: “WAKE UP!!!!” i hear, but keep my eyes shut.i don’t need to open them,i know it is him calling- black bird.  “madam…it’s time you wake up.it’s festival season.” i…

  • Hampi pt 1: Savasana (Into the Bardo)

    Hampi pt 1: Savasana (Into the Bardo)

    xlvi i’m astate of greyscale. i feel stripped. is this freedom or aloneness? i exitthe train.unlikeany reality i’ve experienced before.  arrivedin darki watchthe blackbird flickering his wings, “aajao”. (come) he flutters into the sky like a whim- perching on a rooftop ledge, he calls me.  i climb repaired stairsi seethe guru, standing, presence like a lion. fierce.  the sunrising,sunlight…