The Horned Rabbit

Ramón Sender Barayón

May, 2003

HYMN IV HER

"To seek enlightenment by separating from this world

Is as absurd as to search for a rabbit's horn."

Hui Neng, The Last Zen Patriarch

The Platform Sutra

Hymn IV Her

Or

Finding The Rabbit's Horn

Or

Is Your Uvula The Mythic Jackalope?

O Ma, first-manifest from the Unborn,

Your thirsting children, lost in forgetfulness,

Roam desert caverns of the mirror worlds

In search of dimly remembered infant bliss

Obscured 'neath moldering piles of sacred texts.

Nuzzling your flank, they cannot find the source,

Or recognize your sacred musky scent.

Great Isis ("Eesees"), Mother, Ray Cow, Vak!

O Aditi, Kosmos-creator, guide them

With your radiance to your effervescent

Breast's love-nectar, bursting empty hearts.

With infinite compassion, you have placed

Your nipple permanently behind each tongue,

But no one seizes it except in dreams --

The rabbit's horn that Patriarch Wean-ing scorns

Exists! Nurse on your uvula, oh waifs!

-- Awake!

Notes: More than you want to know about horned rabbits

can be seen at

http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/jackalope.html

Notes

It seems that the "horned rabbit" of antiquity and today is created

when a rabbit is infected with the papilloma virus.

The poem includes the correct pronunciation of Isis ("Eesees") because

of its importance. Please observe that "Eesees" automatically places

the mouth in a smile. Also observe that the Americanized/English

pronunciation of Yeshua ("Jesus/Geeziz") actually will evoke the

presence of the Egyptian creator-goddess, who must be getting

slightly annoyed by this misappropriation of her seed syllable. That is

to say, all the Fundamentalist Christians are actually invoking Her

when they think they're invoking -- oh, never mind. Also the

12-steppers, with their phrase "Easy does it," invoke her quite appropriately.