Dream of the Unified Field
Quartet:
Shanavasa, Ananda,
Jorie Graham, Robert Louis Stevenson
“Shanavasa asked Ananda,
‘What is the fundamental uncreated essence of all things?’ “
— Jorie Graham,
“Relativity: A Quartet”
in The Dream of the Unified Field:
Selected Poems 1974-1994,
Ecco Press, 1995
“Ananda to Shanavasa:
‘Buddha is Alive! Buddha is Alive!’
Shanavasa to Upagupta:
‘Space is Consumed by Flaming Space.’ “
— Table of Contents, Living Buddha Zen
Cover illustration
by Stephen Savage,
NY Times Book Review,
Feb. 2 (Candlemas), 2003
“We live the time that a match flickers.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Aes Triplex
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on this date in 1850.