Tag: suffering

Action’s Clarity

If waiting is confusion
I must take constant action
always moving, the Tim Kennedy way,
making meaning of each moment
remembering each pain

How else will I wish to escape?
How else will I make effort to change?

A traveler bound for futures lives
knows she does not rest
intention fills each moment,
causes for future effects

Why not make them virtuous,
choosing happiness instead?

We constantly plan our suffering
as if carefully ripening its seed
whatever fruit or thorn befalls us,
we first reach forth to blame

How will we become wiser
while prioritizing our fame?

How will we help others
while wallowing in our shame?

We should make meaning of our life
short and precious and rare

We should grasp this opportunity
instead of yielding to our fear

Will you rise to the occasion?
Enjoy all moments as they pass?

Understanding true causes
I just rejoice and laugh

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Buddhism Poetry

the Runner

smart mouth, ignorant mind
quick to speak, quick to die
life too brief, running out of time
creating causes to ever find

endless suffering

why me?

fast talk, soft skin
feel without, see within
fast decisions, a life of sin
feel samsara hook you in

with attachment

why not me?

as I seek the highest highs
I learn the lowest lows
then suddenly sink lower
than I’d ever thought I’d go

the lower realms

not again

yet always I’m forgetting
the causes of my pain
making all escape attempts
nothing but in vain

putting me to shame

again

the blue of Mount Meru
reflects into our sky
all the flesh and bones
of all my lives gone by

exceed its mass

and still, again,
I try

Tags attachment, creative writing, cycles, cyclical existence, emptiness, karma, poem, Poetry, realization, renunciation, samsara, suffering

Buddhism Poetry

Such Silly Suffering

Why do I feel so sad
to release my suffering?

I know its source! And still!
I cling like stickseed

burred burdens born
impossible to remove

without wisdom realizing
the true nature of all things

impermanent
not existing inherently

so what does that mean
when I cling so

to this suffering
inborn familiarity

infinite lifetimes old
makes 21 day habits

impossibly young
and still, we must

abide by these present
physical laws in order

to attain the higher
understandings and escape

of ultimate Enlightenment
for the benefit of

all living beings
the only way to make

any meaning of my
present suffering

Tags attachment, creative writing, enlightenment, enlightenmnet, escape, familiarity, karma, liberation, poem, Poetry, suffering, wisdom

Buddhism Philosophy Poetry

The Deserter’s Confession

Post author By K. Samways
Post date April 27, 2023
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To desert – to leave someone, especially lacking

Desert – a dry place barren or lacking of water, and therefore life, typically characterized by sand or rocky substrate

Have I deserted others? I have been repenting for abandonment – all while running from those in need, in this very life.

I have grown attached to comfortable conditions and yet things are changing. Although I know the years bear varied fruits, I still expect a consistency inconsistent with samsara, and now I am frustrated and my wishes are unfulfilled!

What can I possibly do to bear the burdens and great sufferings of this life but go for refuge to the Three Jewels – the only glimmer of gold available to protect my mind until I reach full Enlightenment. I will always be vulnerable to the illusion-like elements, believing them to be inherently existent and external to my mind! Ha! A joke and a lie grasped at by a self-cherishing, ignorant mind.

Please, Buddha! Ripen a Dharma Jewel in my mind that I may no longer abide in such senseless suffering knowing that I create causes, I purify negativity, I grow merit in abundance, especially by remaining ever mindful and alert to the delusions that arise continuously in my mind, nonstop, as I breathe. To fight against this endless deluge, a magnificent current, is only possible through blessings (a miracle indeed)!

Praise to Buddha, the neverending source of happiness guiding all my steps, so that I may always keep a happy mind and so I might attain Enlightenment for the benefit of all living beings! How wonderful I have this precious opportunity. I will not take it for granted and I will not waste time wishing things would be easier or faster. What benefit is that to me when my primary goal is to end samsara permanently? I will be patient. I will wait quietly. I will not seek revenge. I will take responsibility for my negative karma. I will act as a Bodhisattva, now, in the present, even as I’m becoming one. I will bring the future result into the present which is simply happiness – for whatever arises is bliss and emptiness and we’ll wake up laughing, seeing it was here all along.

And after all, how far off can we really be?

All we have to do is give up grasping at this dream.

I will desert the dream.

I renounce samsara.

But I will not abandon living beings. I will come back to help all others. For my goal is not, nor ever, solitary peace.

No matter how much I think I may enjoy the quiet.

I will not live in the desert.

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Poetry

Curious Delusion

Am I curious again?

Let me stay in the stage of discovering

Don’t let it end

Happiest I am dancing through the maze

Don’t let it end

I’m content being lost as long as I’m left here

Don’t let it end

In Samsara’s pleasure garden, no one wishes for

the end of the line

I’m satisfied to discover new suffering

Don’t let it end

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