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POEMS OF BUDDHA, BUDDHISM OR BUDDHISTS

A PLACE OF PERFECT PEACE
*
A place
of perfect peace
slows the
world's fast pace.

Those who enter
touch the bluefires of peace.
and comes closer
to perfect peace.
There is infinite space
in such a small place.

(to S. B. Everett, whose
aura is of perfect peace)

ANGKOR WAT
*
Because he was
truly a follower
of the Buddha..
he valued living
creatures more than
stone deities..
he thought it a greater
sacrilege to remove
the vines which
covered the ancient temples

Because he was truly a follower
of the Buddha..
he would not repair the
roof of the Tibetan temple
.. with the felled pillars
of once living trees
*
(to J Gibbons)

BUDDHA IN CHINA
*
He walked toward
us, this man born
in 1963 under Aquarius..
.. there was a cloud
of peace around him...
which lifted us slightly
above the ground....
severing our magnetism
with Mother Earth...
so that things of
the world receded...
we knew that he
cared for all beings..
we knew that he cared
for us as well.
He served us in
a Chinese restaurant..
the rice and coffee
became
bread and wine
in an ancient
sacrament of
initiation.

Some are stars
shining beyond
the cyclone,
the dry place
within the monsoon,
.. the warm shelter
in the hurricane,
the calm center
.. of the typhoon

but Buddhas reveal
to us
that we are all.
*
BUDDHA NO PEST

No creature is
thought a pest
in compassionate
Budapest..
so great there
is Buddha's Spirit
in all-embracing Budapest.

BUDDHIST CHRISTMAS GIFT
*
The Buddhist
gave his nonBuddhist friend
a Christmas gift
..a present in wrapping
of maya, with
dawnribbons of streaming
light..
inside was nothing..
the void which births
all wishes
the emptiness containing
all
*
BURIED IN CHICKEN FEATHERS
*
The statue of the
Buddha Compassionate
is buried
in chicken feathers
*
(Note: Thailand has killed 34 million chickens
in avian flu campaigns
Thailand is one of the 5 biggest
exporters of chicken bodies
in the world.
It is a 1.5 billion dollar business
and yet Thailand has banned logging.)
*

DEMEOWED
*
When she was adopted she
could not meow.. could not speak
She could only give
a very soft squeak
A laryngectomy was inflicted
on her in a research lab
so that when she was tortured
she could not shriek.
*
(The Buddha atma is in all beings)
(about Rosebud Abbananda
whom my family adopted)

(every state university in Ohio as well as many
clinics, hospitals, corporate labs... harm animals
in labs) http://www.all-creatures.org/saen

ISSA
*
Issa saw from
the great Buddha's
nose a starling
nesting.
Perhaps in the desert
Jesus saw
a scorpion emerge
from a skull's
eye sockets.
The great ones
look alike upon
attraction and
revulsion..
for they love
all beings
.. for they
have no desire.
*
KINDNESS RISES EVERYWHERE
*
The Tree and Bird Protectors
saw that
windmills and wind
dynamos were prayer
wheels moving in
divine current
.. and that more
and more were making
these dynamos birdfriendly
*
MOON RESCUE
*
He thought the moon
was drowning underwater..
He dove in
So great was his faith..
he ascended holding her in his
dripping hand
*
SAPPHO WEARS SAFFRON
*
The white orange blossom
has become the orange orb fruit
and reborn, like California poppies,
Sappho wears monks' saffron

THE WIND'S PRAYER WHEELS
*
The Buddhist saw that
when his wrist was tired
the Wind came and moved
his prayer wheel for him.

Breath comes and
goes
and the lung prayer
wheels
move to and fro.

TIBETAN INCENSE STICK
*
Plumes of snow were smoking
off the high peaks of Tibet..
incense sticks on the mountain
altars to the Buddha.
Eddies swirled in the
mountain streams..
eternal prayer wheels
actualizing dreams.
*
(to all Dalai Lamas)
*
VICIOUS?
*
Is all 'fishing'
most vicious
to fishes?
Is their mercury
unnutritious?
Oxymoronic..
'fresh fish
dishes' ?

WRITING ON WATER
*
Those who attempted to
colonize Vietnam
have written on water,
while the vietnamese have
written on invaders' hearts
*

Footnotes:
The Dalai Lama: The Only Religion Is Kindness

A Place of Perfect Peace is
to Thich Nhat Hanh
Prayer Wheels is to J Gibbons