#buddhist
If it does not fit
In something you can carry
Then it possesses you
Jun 18, 2025
Jun 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM UTC
Foam lines move outwards
From oars that pierce stillness
Spreading just to fade.
May 24, 2025
May 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM UTC
As we enter and branch off
In & as each different stream of water,
Let us share flow equitably as pressure,
May no loose colmation of ignorance
Seperate us. To the maturity of our emotions
And to the equality of our intellect;
May we wash away
All the built up silt and dead rot,
Which if without purpose
Only exists as an obstacle
Toward greater understanding.
May we wind & wade not
Where we face arrest by impasses
But are found by oceans.
May we be worthy,
That we walk away
More than we entered.
Feb 10, 2025
Feb 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM UTC
dreaming of buddhist
monk i am not even close
i write poetry
Sep 12, 2023
Sep 12, 2023 at 8:41 AM UTC
The more enlightened
you become
the more power
you have
to create
a new mind
a new life
a new world!
Feb 21, 2021
Feb 21, 2021 at 8:43 PM UTC
Surrounded by darkness
Put myself in that harness
I think that’s the hardest
part to accept
Jul 25, 2020
Jul 25, 2020 at 11:02 AM UTC
My
Childhood did not unfold
The way I wanted to
But come eighteen
I blossom
Like a lotus
In the mud.
Mar 28, 2019
Mar 28, 2019 at 6:27 PM UTC
Moon falls behind hills
solitary shadows
autumn wind
silence
bits of stars
vague and remote
walking amongst
ancient trees
in a courtyard
in the depths
of a temple
the flicker of lamps
the saffron of robes
the sound of wooden fish
the sound of Namo Amitabha is
peace
quiet like a flower, a grass
a wind, a rain
a sand, a stone
a dream, a season.
Mar 21, 2019
Mar 21, 2019 at 10:33 PM UTC
The name is karma
Or Elena
I am odd duck
And unique person
Like a fingerprint
Or DNA
I don’t like chess
I am not a computer
Nor am I cold hearted
I love art
Poetry,
Photography
Languages
And anything that life
Has to offer
I am human
Are you??!!
Mar 21, 2019
Mar 21, 2019 at 7:18 PM UTC
Often I feel trapped in worlds opposed to each other
In one, I am a cog in this insidious machine, always painfully aware of my complicity in the assault on the only Earth
But in the other, I am free from the toils of man
I am a Bodhisattva in loving service to our mother in her time of need, vowing to save every last one of her children
Where will I turn today?
Feb 22, 2019
Feb 22, 2019 at 10:50 PM UTC
When I
See the circular
Diamond in the night
Sky
Everything glows
Snow and all
I have an enlightening experience
Feb 15, 2019
Feb 15, 2019 at 5:22 PM UTC
So, I’m drawn to your religion
On the basis of aesthetic.
I want to feel the way that
Golden, plump, laughing Buddha
Feels without having to read the stories.
I want to embrace the wu wei--
Whatever that means--
I want to sit criss-crossed
In the long, naples yellow grass
With no ticks.
In the orange afternoon sun
With no nighttime.
I want to worship at a smoky altar
And feel the arms of
My Goddess wrap around me.
Hear her voice: slow, smooth, but stern.
“Thank you,” for the sacrifice.
I want to be divine--God
Gaze down from the Heavens
And take pride in my light
Like I am your son;
I want to be free of the burden
Of my humanness,
Lifted,
Cleansed,
Purified.
I wish to be free of desire
And so it is the desire which ails me.
And I curse nothing more
Than I curse my hungry heart
And my faulty mind.
Lifted,
Cleansed,
Purified.
Jan 5, 2019
Jan 5, 2019 at 3:39 PM UTC
Thuk-jay-che Kuan Yin
For protecting me
Through this life
Thuk-jay-che Kuan Yin
For helping me
To nurture my gifts
And nourish my body
Thuk-jay-che Kuan Yin
For showing me
Why I am on this planet
For bring justice
Thuk-jay-che Kuan Yin
For encouraging me
Through my parents
My creative side
My artistic side.
Dec 23, 2018
Dec 23, 2018 at 10:29 AM UTC
As I listen to animal collective
I shut my eyes
And I see a pond
With
Lotus flowers
Each in the colour of a chakra
Floating in the water.
As I listen to animal collective
I shut my eyes
Thinking I am drifting
To sleep
But my head rested
On the lap of Buddha
Instead of the pillow
As I listen to animal collective
I imagine that
I am in the land
Of my ancestors
My face
And limbs
being tickled to death
By prayer flags.
I giggle.
As I listen to animal collective
My ears
And conciseness
Race from
My being
And coming with the universe.
Dec 23, 2018
Dec 23, 2018 at 10:14 AM UTC
I am a Buddhist
Who struggles with self esteem
I am a Buddhist
Who has been abandoned many times for another.
I am Buddhist
Who thinks of death and dying
I am a Buddhist
Who is struggling
I am a Buddhist who
Needs intervention.
Dec 17, 2018
Dec 17, 2018 at 9:16 AM UTC
Desire causes suffering
As Buddha said.
When you try to hard
To find love
You suffer
When you want too
Much for Christmas presents
Suffering comes
When you pursue your
Heritage
Suffering comes a knocking
“When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.”
Said a wise goth rocker.
Dec 17, 2018
Dec 17, 2018 at 8:39 AM UTC
My advice is to you girl
Don’t look in the mirror
You need to be health and happy
***** everyone else
My advice is to you girl
***** the passport
Pursue your DNA
Pursue you chosen spirituality
My advice is to you girl
Is to not to fit in
Don’t be afraid
To step on some
Toes and egos.
Be yourself
My advice is to you girl
Is not to be afraid
To swear
***** the brimstone people
Just say it.
Dec 12, 2018
Dec 12, 2018 at 9:14 AM UTC
The prayer flags flutter
And sway in the wind
As I meditate
Though instead of seeing
The compassionate face
Of Buddha
I see the face of my lover
A Lama
Whom was from the distant past
A past life that I
Rather forget.
Dec 7, 2018
Dec 7, 2018 at 1:29 PM UTC
I am a Buddhist; who has experienced the good and the bad.
I am buddhist; who has suffered and seen suffering
I am a Buddhist; just trying to live life
I am a Buddhist; seeking enlightenment
I am a Buddhist; who doesn’t want a relationship nor ****** love.
Dec 6, 2018
Dec 6, 2018 at 2:29 PM UTC
The gold fish named Tony (a poem)
Happily and freely
Does the fantail goldfish
Named Tony
Swims
With out a care in the world
Tony thinks
The world is a peaceful place
Yet he does not know
Much of what goes on
Beyond the fish Bowl
But it is better
Then hearing and seeing
The bad things
That happens outside of the
Fish Bowl
So freely and happily
Tony swims
Ignorance is bliss
When you’re a fantail goldfish
In your little slice
Of paradise
Nov 26, 2018
Nov 26, 2018 at 9:43 AM UTC
I’m a buddhist woman living with mental illness.
It does not make me weak.
It does not make me any less of a of a Buddhist
Buddhists live with mental illness too.
It’s ok not to be ok.
Nov 19, 2018
Nov 19, 2018 at 5:58 PM UTC
As the prayer flags sway and wave in the breeze
The poppies blossom
With their forbidden fruit.
The doctors say that that
Forbidden fruit is the oldest pain relief
I say love, kindness and compassion are the oldest forms of pain relief.
The flower is only a beautiful and
Yet obnoxious ****
Which offers no enlightenment but misery and suffering.
Nov 18, 2018
Nov 18, 2018 at 8:11 AM UTC
I am always looking
Looking for that permanent high
Trying to end my anger
I will keep looking
Chasing enlightenment
Chasing enlightenment
For the rest of my life
I will be looking
I will be chasing enlightenment
Until I die
Just keeping hope
And thanking my mom
Thanking both my parents
But I will be searching
Like a detective
Hoping to find the
Meaning of life.
Nov 18, 2018
Nov 18, 2018 at 7:14 AM UTC