What I Have Understood

Something that is already known by babies, lunatics & monks

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What I have understood a baby already knows,
so do lunatics, lovers, and monks.

We are all born radiant, holy and divine,
Buddhas of the great beyond,
then, slowly, with almost no warning,
we enter the Great Amnesia,
a lifetime spent looking for a key we never lost
to open a…