Beginning Anew by Dean Solon

this world presents as reality,
and may be experienced as apparency,
and when it is,
all that is
can be seen as transparency.

often it is asked:
if this is the way it is,
why get out of bed in the morning?
why care about any of it?

because you care about the well-being of all the manifestings,
the embodyings and expressings,
of form, and of life.
because you care about this world and all that is in this world,
whether it is reality
and-or apparency
and-or transparency.
because of the bodhisattva vow of intention
...to be working---and playing---
   for the awakening
   of all sentient beings.