Haiku: your pet peeve and other musings about Buddhism

Aye! a pretty thing
whole universes within
Held in tension still

2 Likes

A patched robe

Piece of cloth, patched robe –
its history who can see
beginning and end?

Its fine fibre threads
spun and woven into cloth,
then broken again…

3 Likes

Autumn sunny pond
with Eucalyptus blossoms
made my mind-heart smile.

6 Likes

Mother’s Day

Not good to dismiss
Climate Action call appeal,
One Earth Sangha call.

5 Likes

Jhana Wars

Tossed about, battered
In roiling seas of passion
On Occasions calm

Brief moments of ease
Sacrificed on ego’s altar
Just more fuel for storms

4 Likes

The five become ten
Don’t doubt what is within you,
that’s a hindrance too.

5 Likes

Tea Meditation

Sitting, drinking tea …
Thinking agitates the mind,
silence is blissful.

Sitting, drinking tea …
Passions are waves of the mind,
stilling is peaceful.

5 Likes

Fleeing home, possessed
Nice to be back, sipping tea
Feel oneself again

5 Likes

Plastic chandeliers
Also toss rainbows across
An empty sala

10 Likes

Buddha

Blessed with noble birth
in ancient Jambudipa,
awakened to Truth.

Such gave up craving,
walked at peace in Samsara
with a clear mind.

Without remainder
He passed away in Sal grove,
surrounded by friends.

6 Likes

Born again.
Lacking a monastery this time.
Monks still complain.

5 Likes

Fall down seven times
Get up eight, you never learn
So you fall down eighth

Each time you fall down
Grow in knowledge, little mind
Stay up on the ninth

Ten thousand mile road
Your Staff of faith well in hand
Walk the path dear mind

6 Likes

Spiritual friends
help each other unburden,
walk lightly the path.

6 Likes

Cold.
The ice is hot, the snow is warm.
There she waits, with cold blankets.
Whistling.
Wake up cold, blue lotuses bloom.
Skin cracks and blisters.
Help me.

1 Like

The monastery
The Ariya lived here once.
Noble meditators, find the footsteps on the lotus path.
Now only argument stays.

3 Likes

Dharma Fracking.
The men came in suits.
Crying Bhantes escorted out by smiling CEOS.
We were sold our dharma disfigured.

2 Likes

The Worthy Ones

Best friends to the World,
freed from conceit and contempt,
they helped people grow.

Not in the numbers,
or greed, hate and delusions,
but in true freedom.

2 Likes

After one long year
now Delta Covid lockdown…
wearisome bug.

3 Likes

I am that, maybe,
No self, no soul or not self,
Or nothing at all.

Those who speak don’t know,
Those who know can’t speak the Truth;
We wonder in search.

Three things are true:
Death, impermanence, taxes.
I don’t know the rest.

Under the willow
Tree I think. I am the one
Who doesn’t know.

3 Likes

Seeing mind thinking,
many thoughts come and go, but
who is one who knows?

1 Like