Buddhism Poems

antitrust boredom

civilrights/votingrights/democracyreform
update on communication of opinion with senator warren

constitutional means and measure as provided in description of property

antitrust boredom

petrol
the contemporary lobbying for additional police
in policy writing equates
to the value of ignition of petrol
rather than the clerical error correction
of a homeless person becoming american
that prepaid property of the citizen is in trial
as evidence at the moment
exiting a

A Mobius Strip

(“Mind’s Eye Merit Badge” #67, 2020, original oil)

A Möbius Strip

Mind and nature of mind 
So close and yet so different
Not like night and day different
But earth and sky
Not two sides of the same thing
But opposites
One an is, the other an isn’t 
One an illusion, the other real
This is how truth and falsehood exist
Like an object

A Boomers Late Bloomer

Skinny in youth thick in later days
Champion for truth despite delays

As a late bloomer in thought process
Born to a baby boomer and so blessed

Believed in God but didn’t get much church
Felt so odd how the church clicks work 

Rather open to explore other fuchsia faiths
Went to the mosque just couldn’t be great

And with Buddhism she

Splintered Sunlight

Step into splintered sunlight
broken beams flash
across bare, silhouetted flesh.

Above
Father-Sun forever scintillates,
a deep and ancient ember,
giving ceaselessly to all
wanting nothing in return.

The trees, they dance
in verdant splendor,
leaning lazily, they sigh
with utter contentment.
Their leaves, a chorus
of flapping green,
each one moving to its own rhythm,
closely listening to the wind sing.

White stars illuminate my eyes
and echo through my soul.
Vibrations

Zen and the Art of Gunnery

Firing blanks,
i missed nothing. 

‘Twas all for naught.

Lost Horizon

Our plane went down in the mountain snow, but I was alive
I walked on ice in the thin air, the only way to survive
Then on a ledge, I saw that light, a valley pure and green  
With rivers rolling, flowers blooming, almost like a dream.

I stumbled down a narrow path to find a monastery

The True Master

Putting you above me
Your feet at my head
Is the natural thing to do
When your mastery
Is revealed.

But it’s all relative
As you put others above you and
Others put themselves below me.
That’s why it’s called
The wheel of life.

When I step back
And my emotions settle
I see that no one is The Master
But that each can instead
Be the appropriate messenger.

(9/1/24)

A Little More

I shaved my head
and wore a robe
the mountain pass
I found at last
grew thin alas
but fat I got
on nature's lot
her sounds were not
my thoughtless strobe
though I was dead
to the mountain's mass
in me she saw
I knew not what
my feet grew raw
I found my past
a timely flaw
the mountain pass
my life aghast
and all was for
a little more
though I was

Nature of Mind

("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

Our Peace

I looked at the horrible faces,
agnostic,
I look at the beautiful faces,
pristine,
I looked for a summer in the midst of winter,
and for repose in a gruelling duel with death and oblivion.

I looked for salvation,
looked outside the door for breath and bread.

I looked towards the sun, 
and inwards,
and moved upwards and moved closer to the stars,
within the

Karma

know thyself; is your life on the right track
aligned with, refined by, the principles of dharma
refrain, abstain, be kind and be calmer
meditate, seek meaning: find moral momentum
all actions count on this trip to nirvana

That Troubling Interdependent Sensory Web

I mean,
seriously?

Talk about
boundary issues!

I get it, 
why the 7th multicultural value,
and most recent
to finally make it in
to sacred UniversalYang/UnitarianYintegral
iconology,
doxology,
eulogy,
ecotherapeutic theology,
green ecofeminist ecology,
declares our polypathic RESPECT
for our interdependent sacred web
of life
reincarnating win/win love

As in,
could Elder EarthMothers
get a little RESPECT?

Which just might not fail to mention
that AnthroSupremacists are 
a one among many EarthTribe species,
one of the more

Alan W Watts: Rip Great Lapsed Pastor

I
Alan Watts says we live forever
In children if we can bear
There is no joy in going on, ever
And ever as a dying tree or flower

II
He was a brilliant Brit, knew nirvana!
Died as American, in California
Barely making 59 years, once pastor
Presbyterian in Pennsylvania

III
I need to research why he quit
He was undoubtedly good at it
For faithfulness few

Mountain Meaning I - Prayer of the Hawk

I sit under the trees

Later
My neighbor said
“I enjoyed watching you pray.”

“What do you mean?”

“You sat there so still
Head tilted up for a very long time.”

“I suppose so
But actually I was entranced
By the crowns of the Oaks sweeping the sky
And that Cooper’s Hawk nest along for the ride
Swaying basket beneath a parachute

“A Fledgling teetering on the

Mountain Meaning Iii - Death of Anthropocene

As I hike
The winding Rattler paths of Green Mountain
It’s tempting to think
Beneath my skidding leather shoes
These marbles of red stones
Were scattered and tossed here
Just today

Laid out
While I was still eating breakfast

Though I know
The mountain is rising from iron boots

Shedding its skin
Shaking to wind
Alpines cracking its rocks like eggs

Boulders giving way if you imagine a day
When

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