Bodhisattva Poems - Poems about Bodhisattva

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 vow to obtain it ...

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("Mind's Eye", 2017, original encaustic) Nature of Mind This state, not the external one Of time and place, but the natural state That knows no in or out, one or many, Is our true home. And yet we wander Endlessly searching for what is already here. What is this state? Open, welcoming, forgiving, peaceful, Without causes and conditions Thus unborn and undying, The simply...

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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 of influence and prestige. Years ago my Lama visited my home...

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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 time for acceptance in a deeply wounded weaponed climate of narcissistic anthrosupremacist discontent; A depressing wounding isolating...

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The purest souls glide on wings of light. Illumination is not necessarily the effect but, a soul’s calling to enlightenment. You awaken when you see beyond mortality a Bodhisattva I be, come join me. Awaken to the ecstasy of flight, the light calls and I will teach you; Nirvana is yours. ...

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Creation Stories Salvation Narratives regenerate, together win/win co-operate bodhisattva risks and universal opportunities for mutual co-investment In sacred meaning as also interdependent ecological webs of blue/green Heaven/Earth Patristic/Matriarchal enlightening/empowering mono/poly-theistic communal myths, Anthrosupremacists need to feel divinely re-inspired win/win strategically salvific protagonists re-activists multiculturally adept communal mediators Win/Winning within these co-passionate narratives. It's win/lose either/or LeftBrain verbally unredemptively retributively obvious why StraightWhiteMale privileged predators want to believe in Patriarchal-Capitalist toxic PC cancelling polytheistic myths, But how do we make more EcoFeminist healthy wealth (without degenerative...

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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 your active curiosity and passion for issues of healthy democratic empowering...

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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 Avalokitesvara, He Who Hears and Heeds the Sounds of the...

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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 roads to the skies, to bare yourself, to strip away enigmas of...

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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 a Bachelor of [bad-humored] Science degree, while I was more ecofeminist...

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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 articulate being and becoming healthy-wealthy regenerative generalists, acting co-redemptively cooperative, which economists...

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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 PolyTheistic Traditions, (although what on Earth do you think was on...

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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, unloads passenger's baggage, helps loved ones find each other, soothed rumpled feelings,...

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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 polarizing untransubstantiated reiterations of polymathic +1 CoMessianic Erotic monotheistic salvation and -(-0) Bodhisattva...

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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 killed. and to take the place of the executioner Is like handling...

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