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Poetry

Prisoner

I’m forced to walk where my feet go
I’m forced to wonder on what I know
I’m forced to move by winds of mind
I’m forced to suffer, for I’ve been unkind

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Buddhism Love Letters Thirsty Thursday

Happy | Letter 8

To the Musician,

How can I count the ways
I have experienced joy
with you
already

How can I tell thee
the way you make me feel
when I know I have
created the causes

How can I share wisdom
when I am drowning
in samsara’s sea?

Still, you have helped
dispel the ignorance
of a thousand aeons,
a dreadful darkness,
with a single torch

How can I tell you
how happy I feel
how content I am
in the present moment
here and now
with you
while also planning
our escape

Because to
escape suffering
permanently
is my only wish
especially
with you

happy
beside me

Love, the Muse

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Buddhism Philosophy

Non Attachment is Renunciation

While we can happily enjoy conditions while they are good, there is no logical reason to become attached to any particular condition, because they are always changing.

All conditions, situations, people are temporary. They may last what feels like a long time or they may be brief, changing suddenly, unexpectedly, perhaps lost forever. Because when we manifest the same ‘souls’ or similar appearance in our next life, we have absolutely no recollection that we’ve lived it all before. Loved it all before. Losing it once more. And what lessons have we learned? What imprints are left?

With wisdom we can enjoy each appearance, as it arises, unattached. The end of coming is going. The end of meeting is parting. It happens all the time. All at once.

Why take anything so seriously? Life is but a dream. All we need to do to make it a happy one is create causes. By performing virtue. Sacrifice the self-cherishing, maker of all suffering. Ditch the attachment, rooted in self-grasping ignorance. Renounce samsara and all the pain it’s worth.

Stop harming others. Stop harming your self. Three deep breaths. Relax. Shake your sillies out. Volunteer. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up. Let it be. Love. Become Enlightened. Rejoice endlessly.

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Philosophy Poetry

Out brief candle

What character am I today?
Oft I strive for studious, disciplined

Yet my ego shakes those keeners off
and lets me where a suit
I’m likely to get in trouble for

In grade school I was sent
to the lost & found to find
myself in another’s clothes

after boldly wearing my own
t-shirt listing the names of the
popular kids in the class

under the stamp
Cool Girls Suck

something ran amuck —
I cannot comprehend
my own ten year old mind

that thought her teachers
were arrested in the head

these past life impressions pressed
back out, creating misery this time ‘round

Attachment to the ego,
character Thomas B.
never did bring happiness
so I won’t be attached to thee —

what kind of actor am I today?

Who will I be as I create
causes for ultimate peace
not just for me — 
          what purpose for that?

If I truly love others,
   I’ll escape and come back

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Firescape Fridays

As fate would have it | FF 13

Fated to meet
Fated to part
Fated to fucking break my heart

Fated to be mean
Fated to be kind
Fated to challenge, grow my mind

Fated to rise
Fated to fall
Fated to one day have it all

Fated for happy
Fated for blue
Fated to still be loving you