He ponders how everything fades away,
time, material things, a woman’s looks.
Then he wonders if rocks are the
exception, if they erode into nothingness,
and it seems the planet will have to die
before that can happen.
And since rocks don’t appear to have
parents, or consummate, he wonders
how rocks are born.
He learns they come into being by
something called a rock cycle, and
to his amazement, they can live
millions to billions of years.
Then he wonders if rocks have any
sentience, and he learns about
The Panpsychic World, the belief
that consciousness is present in
all things akin to what the Mahayana
Buddhists call the Buddha nature
in all things, sentient and insentient.
He doesn’t know if that theory is
possible, and, right or wrong,
he doesn’t believe in reincarnation,
but imagine if reincarnation were true
and all things, sentient and insentient,
would eventually reach an afterlife state
of eternal bliss consciousness.
He likes the thought of that, the
equality and the promise of it.
Bob Boyd
