Monthly Archives: July 2003

Roadside Attractions

If you see the Buddha by the roadside, stop, and ask him how his day is going, inquire if perhaps he might need a ride … if you do not, there’s no way of knowing. Give him a break, for … Continue reading

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The Virtual World

So much pain and sorrow, so little joy! It seems to me the world is full enough with ugliness and the things that annoy and irritate – why carry all that stuff with you in a place where you can … Continue reading

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Right Action

Into the crumbling chasm we fall, past expectations and preconception where rational mind’s great gift, perception turns out to be not too much use at all; and the comforting thoughts of our blindness (great faith in dogmatic institutions giving us … Continue reading

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Greeting Christian Ladies: a pantoum

Hello, I told the ladies at the gate: Come in, I’d like to hear of your good news. But first, and on this I’ll hear no debate, I’d like to offer some good news to you. You’ll need no chapter … Continue reading

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Slicing the Apple

So undone by wishing, though its hiding shore, I saw No there are work for whom has love, so doing one should not a madman’s fate! As to find it all of the Most men come across my are a … Continue reading

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La Vita Nuova

Ah, could I be quite so fully undone by that which being shown me made me whole, Love? To see it in just one place, begun, then its ending, elsewhere, would leave my soul lost. To pine for that which … Continue reading

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Another World

You never told me that you’d tried to change; all of this time I just thought that you were strange. You never said those magic words that turned our hearts from rocks to birds. You never tried to understand: all … Continue reading

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