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Open Poetry #42

If you meet the Buddha on the Road

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2008-04-12 12:23 PM

If you meet the Buddha on the Road
Don't kill him

The question has been answered,
yes, to my satisfaction:
all evidence points to this,
that life is meant to be a struggle.

So here's a warning
(from the serious laughing poet)
To all of you so happy types:
If you find your life is truly happy
then don't worry,
that too shall quickly pass.

Some blissless morning unexpected
will find you
trudging through life
as the rest of in-humanity
walking down the endless path
all must take
to ever and anon arrive at death.

You'll be looking at family photos
and wondering where it all went
as you dream on of good old days
so well remembered
though they never never happened
except in the feverish mind
of your wishful thinking self.

And should your teary ways
bring you to the Buddha on the road:
don't kill him - no point -
he too is a fake.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2008-04-12 09:09 AM

Of course there will be happiness and sadness and everything in between...still the key is how we respond to whats happening to us...James

poddarku
Senior Member

since 2008-01-15

Posts 589
india

2 posted 2008-04-12 10:18 AM

powerful poem

clever talks delay friendship!

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

3 posted 2008-04-12 11:02 AM

This about 'sums it up' (the eternal 'human condition) for me!...

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2008-04-12 11:12 AM

WindWalker,

The Buddha, like Jesus, can turn up in the strangest and most familiar places. One never knows.

It always pays to be nice.

Bobby

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

5 posted 2008-04-12 11:12 AM

yes, and those family photos makes one realize how truly blessed one is...to suffer is, I believe to learn of love, trust, and to receive an understanding...of happiness, it is then, one loves oneself....

Hugs
Lee J.

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2008-04-12 11:38 AM

WW - It's hard to accept that everything is an illusion but it certainly is if we think it is. The trouble is that not many people think either for or against the illusion but maybe they are right because at the end of the day it's all just an experience. Enjoyed your thoughts as usual.

Helen

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