Best Bodhisattva Poems

Do you share my concern 
that your happiness and healthy life 
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?

No! Why? Do you know something I should know?

Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive 
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the odds of too-soon 
EarthTribe's demising
unenterprising
failture to robustly AnthroEros thrive

Due to...

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To my sisters,
and narrow-way brothers,
in Jesus Christ
as Supreme UnitingWealthyStates
sustainable legal/moral Savior

I reached U.S. voting age during the 70s.
During this time,
the Religious Right
and Republican Party Center
were about the same place;
not distinguishable,
inscrutable, perhaps.

In strong conserving defense of retail-commodified AntiChristmas,
wrapped in Fundamentally-Wrong Christian
and Way-Not-True Roman Catholic Orthodox
Never-Even-Think-About-Change-Or-Evolution as...

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In Mahayana Buddhism, a bodhisattva is an enlightened person who gives up his personal salvation in order to save all living beings through mercy.

To hear, to ignore the consequences,
to give up everything, to sever ties
with common sense, to go along with senses
which choose the bumpy...

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This is the third time
I've read Beyond Religion:
Ethics
[non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-violent]
for A (not "The") Whole World
[ZeroZenZone Universe, psychological and politically eco-logical].

In the second, of two, sections,
the Dalai Lama discusses,
in most excruciating therapeutic detail,
emotional positive v negative intelligence,
good- through bad-humored democratic literacy.

I remember Behavioral Psychology class
leading to...

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I met a Bodhisattva yesterday.
It was, of course, by pure accident.
He helped me with my luggage on the way.
Waiting for the train with bored intent,
I walked aimlessly around the station,
checking out ads and bulletin boards,
found an article with illustration
of a man, who, for many years,...

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Soulful
searching
natural embrace
under a tree

Spellbound 
drawn in
aura 
captures me

Sit down 
in a zone 
sense nothing 
just be

River flowing 
tranquil thought
Quiet mind 
I am free....

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Won’t You come imbibe golden
icicle Satori with Me?


You say it’s my decision
 to make
              With softly chosen plans, 

You say it’s up to me
     Inside of
  ...

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So REAL E
                     Ashlee Woman

please meet me
                  ...

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Liberal, simplified and abridged translation for speedy daily practice. 

Released into Public Domain. 

The Bodhisattva of Boundless Will arose from his seat, bared his right 
shoulder, turned towards the Buddha with joined palms and asked: 
“World Honored One, we yearn to know why the Bodhisattva...

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"Systems ecology recognizes that stable conditions
give advantage to highly specialized [yet cooperative] species,
but that changing conditions
favour species known as [cooperative] generalists
that can adapt to different food,
habitat,
or [and] other factors." David Holmgren, Permaculture, p. 63

Socially healthy humans
have become
and come from
cooperative generalists
as we remain communication generalists
as we...

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I sit beneath a sacred tree. Seeking no meaning. I just am
Stillness gives way to clarity. 
I vow to awaken us all
Searching for nothing. Waiting to rise above this earthly realm 
Detaching from this body’s natural state of chaos
Bombarding all senses, numb
Dharma is obtainable, I...

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He took his morning seat
to hear the Sage's sonnet,
"On Punishment":

"The people are not afraid of death;
Why threaten them with death?
Supposing that the people are afraid of death,
and we can seize and kill the unruly,
Who would dare to do so?
Often it happens that the executioner is...

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I wonder if a difference
between a mature
health care bodhisattva
and a less experienced
potential peace messiah

Could be uncovered by noticing
a wisely curious genius
gathering all sacred passionate values

While sadly believing 
s/he can access only the wrong
insufficient
benighted 
disappointing
unwoke audience

And/or these personal cherished gifts,
enlightened powers,
have ripened at the wrong cultural...

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How might capitalism
and egocentric competitive allies
of patriarchalism
racism
sexism
monoculturalism
totalitarianism
binary double-standardism
anthropocentrism

remind us of which competitive communication weapons
develop further violently aggressive apartheid?

And which regenerate gratitude
for cooperative
co-passionate communication tools,
both verbal and non-verbal,
for growing multiculturally resilient social capital?

contextual rightbrain intuitively felt
both/and nuanced
dipolar co-arising left/right 
bicameral intelligence.

Which of your green ecofeminist allies
share...

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(Rinpoche in Sarnath, 1987)

That’s What A Buddha’s Like

It’s hard to know where to start
when talking about the ineffable.

Maybe starting at the end is best.

It’s taken me a lifetime to appreciate
the little things, the simple, unadorned, and unpretentious 
that sometimes peek out
from under the fancy robes...

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