The Roaring Silence Of The Diamond

Grateful Dead: Bird Song ...6/22.73

I wished
I could explain it
to those I loved,
my mother, to Japhy,
but there just weren't
any words to describe
the nothingness
and purity of it.
Is there a certain
and definite teaching
to be given
to all living creatures?
was the question
probably asked
to beetle browed
snowy Dipankara,
and his answer
was the roaring silence
of the diamond.
--Jack Kerouac
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