Tag: Guru

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Buddhism Good Fortune Poetry

Reliance

I am happy
despite circumstances

I am strong
despite my gloom

I am calm
despite storm

I am fearless
despite impending doom

I am giving
despite my poverty

I am glad
despite my lack

I am friendly
despite loneliness

I progress
despite setback

I give with bodhichitta
I give fearlessness and love
I give Dharma and materials
I offer sun and moon above

I offer each and every moment
of pure practice, I transform
I abandon all delusions
and only virtue I perform

But how could I achieve this?
         certainly not alone
only through my Spiritual Guide,
and the Three Jewels upon his throne

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Buddhism Meditation Poetry

Power of Promise

I promised to be patient
I promised to be kind
I promised I would wait
until the end of time

Yet father’s banging at the door
and we all do yield to death,
what’s more delusions bind my grip
and fear has caught my breath

     stop

     rely

I promised to be patient
I promised I would wait
but still ‘round every corner
I expect to meet my fate
                  — and I do!

But it’s never happy!
and even if my heart is glad
no memory of me is had
and so we lose our state
                   — again!

     stop

     offer

I promised to be patient
I promised I would pray
I promised I would escape
     Samsara’s silly plays
                   (all pleasure, mere name
                      real grasping, suffer, blame)

So each day I practice
through the happy and the sad
and even though the sun’s been shining
my heart feels rain
                    — am I mad?!

     stop

     receive

I promised to be patient
I promised to be kind
and so I request blessings
to restore this peace to mind

I know I am resilient
with the Guru at my heart
I know with patient acceptance
I excel at Dharma’s peaceful art

So with blessings in my mind
these delusions I outsmart!
I maintain a stable practice
remembering: no partless part