Fire Horse Dispatch

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“Slow Culture”

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Trust the deeper knowing that says: “Go slow.”

Honor the true season within yourself,

regardless of what the season is ‘out there.’

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“Honey-Covered Hooks”

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We have moved beyond the World of Red Dust.

We have entered the Bardo of Honey-Covered Hooks.

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“Wherever We Go”

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"Go light." -- Gary Snyder

— for Chofu

Hermits don’t leave the world.

Hermits turn inward

to meditate upon the world.

Sometimes they travel through the world —

the world of people and goings on

with all its genius and grimacing corruption.

Hermits try to bring a different energy to it all.

Nature.

Justice.

Conscience.

Encouragement.

Beauty.

Levity.

Balance.

Carefree-and-Easy Wandering.

Hermits don’t leave the world.

Hermits swing a wooden sword in the dark

and bathe in starlight solitude.

Hermits don’t leave the world.

We turn inward

to remind ourselves

that the Inner Mountain

travels with us

wherever we go.

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“Full-Gallop”

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journey: a day’s travel

journal: the daily entry.

Words on a page.

The Great Self

“connects the dots,”

tells of a map.

Not someone else’s map.

Your map.

The Map.

The spiral of time, memory, experience.

The arc of wounding, healing,

reclaiming one’s seat in the saddle after being thrown.

Welcome to the Year of the Galloping Fire.

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© 2026 / Frank Inzan Owen / The Luminous Procession: Poems From Within and Beyond the World of Red Dust

image: Fire Horse, Andrey Soldatov

soundworld: “Rapt in Solitude” from the album SENTIENT BEING by Steve Roach