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"Can you hear, Can you see?"

A spiteful word, an angry look,
Can you hear the pain and sadness
…hiding behind those hurtful words?
Can you see the suffering behind that contorted face?

“May I listen to your problems a moment, friend?”
“Is there something that can be done to help?”

Instead, with hardened heart, we remain silent,
when we could instead open up and be at peace.
Life happens, you can’t avoid it,
and neither can the focus of your ire.

“May I listen to your problems a moment, friend?”
“Is there something that can be done to help?”

Simple thoughts to disarm anger and assuage hurt,
one needs not life’s every answer.
Listening intently, wholeheartedly, and patiently,
heal everyone, everything without so much as a word.
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Dear Members,

Oh WOW!.... With new poems from Convivium/BlackBird/Hickersonia...I really think this POETRY thread...IN MOTION indeed !!

Poetry in motion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orLXu6vjMHU

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love
it comes
i suffocate it
and let it breathe
and suffocate my heart
it aches and slows me down
i am grateful for being slowed down
to see the delusions and catch the heart movements
Just keep breathing in and out like this. Don't be interested in anything else. It doesn't matter even if someone is standing on their head with their ass in the air. Don't pay it any attention. Just stay with the in-breath and the out-breath. Concentrate your awareness on the breath. Just keep doing it. http://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Just_Do_It_1_2.php
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Dear Members,

:heart: HEARTS OF GOLD :heart:
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Oh love!
I truly love
People with hearts of gold
They are beautiful, rare, hard to find
I will tell them I love them.. nope.. I'm not shy
Why? Because I love to have heart of gold people in my world

I love to read dhammapada and jataka stories
Kalayanamittas were reborn as best friends
In many lives they wandered together
They helped each other to find
The ultimate noble truth
So devine!

Buddhas said
"@Only good people will know
Good and bad people.... but impossible
for bad, ignorant people to see/know good people"
Why? Because lobha dosa moha avijja tanha ditthi-vipallasa
Mana issa ahirika anottappa maya micchāditthi cloud their dark minds!

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This is the end of the day
nothing more to think
nothing more to do
life is dead
Death is born.

The dream's over
but reality is not found
Incessant
Infinity ceases
and rises again.

Without body
It ascends,
Without hope
The Silence
Without feature
The Freedom
Without time, without dimension,
Without form
Existence.


The mold is broken
The vessel destroyed

The mind awakens.
"Take rest, take rest."-S.N.Goenka
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Caught between two tides
I float upon the ocean
Dukkha it abides
While I struggle with emotion

When will dividends be paid
When will my time come
I envision the dhamma's shade
So peaceful and so numb

I see the light of metta
The ease of having peace
possessing no vendetta
one day I'll find release.
"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

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First rule of poetry: read it aloud.

If you have any criticism or ideas for improvement, I'd like to hear them.

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All life will end,
though peace need not.
This truth our friend,
with mind, had caught
beneath the tree,
where Mara sought
to bend his knee.
Our mighty lord,
at last set free,
had severed cord
and splintered yolk,
drove Mara’s hoard,
whose power broke.
With mind now clean,
he’d scattered smoke,
and then had seen
what all must see:
that face he’d been
-- had always been --
he could not flee.
For death is change,
and change was he.
But in this range
of death unmoved,
we may exchange
our greed, disproved,
for hearts at ease,
with grief removed
by knowing right.
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:thumbsup: very good stuff Reductor.
"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

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BlackBird wrote::thumbsup: very good stuff Reductor.
Thanks.

And I'm very glad you and others are posting dhamma poetry in this thread. I can't think of any other art form so well suited to dhamma. Keep 'em coming, as I enjoy reading them.
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[quote="Reductor"]First rule of poetry: read it aloud.

If you have any criticism or ideas for improvement, I'd like to hear them.

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Dear Reductor,

Your poem is lovely just like the song POETRY IN MOTION :" there's nothing I would change..it doesn't need improvement..it's much too nice to rearrange"

Me too..I'm happy to see more members to post poems :tongue:
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yawares wrote:
Reductor wrote:First rule of poetry: read it aloud.

If you have any criticism or ideas for improvement, I'd like to hear them.

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Dear Reductor,

Your poem is lovely just like the song POETRY IN MOTION :" there's nothing I would change..it doesn't need improvement..it's much too nice to rearrange"

Me too..I'm happy to see more members to post poems :tongue:
yawares :jumping:
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*poem removed from this post b/c not happy with it.
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"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:
'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

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Escape

Beings wanting pleasure,
filled with sensual desire,
grasping at that which they perceive,
clinging to that which they have,
- losing everything when Death takes them...

Recklessly seeking their preferences,
taking from those who have,
disputing, threatening, fighting,
hoarding it all away someplace secret,
- destroying themselves with their vile deeds...

Beasts facing the elements in the wild,
unsatisfied spirits bewildered and alone,
beings of constant fighting and violence,
life after life of burning torment,
- all of these sorry states await...

Renouncing pleasure-seeking,
holding the mind steady, peaceful,
composed of reason, wise and virtuous,
offering truth to all who dare ask for it,
the Hells abandoned forever,
- assured of victory against Death...

An escape is known
- by those who have tread well the path.





Also, an awesome idea this thread was, at least in my opinion. :)
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BlackBird wrote:*poem removed from this post b/c not happy with it.
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Dear BlackBird,

Oh no !!....I think your poem is very nice...I mean it.. :heart: cross my heart/hope to die :heart: ....Please put your poem back..even nobody reply/respond..doesn't mean that we don't care...I posted many articles here that got no reply...but I'm still here..nope, I'm not desperate..I just want to post things that I love.

Come Back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAb0nZrt6y4

I sincerely love your poems, if you want reply..I'll reply, promise :heart:
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Hickersonia wrote:Escape

Beings wanting pleasure,
filled with sensual desire,
grasping at that which they perceive,
clinging to that which they have,
- losing everything when Death takes them...

Recklessly seeking their preferences,
taking from those who have,
disputing, threatening, fighting,
hoarding it all away someplace secret,
- destroying themselves with their vile deeds...

Beasts facing the elements in the wild,
unsatisfied spirits bewildered and alone,
beings of constant fighting and violence,
life after life of burning torment,
- all of these sorry states await...

Renouncing pleasure-seeking,
holding the mind steady, peaceful,
composed of reason, wise and virtuous,
offering truth to all who dare ask for it,
the Hells abandoned forever,
- assured of victory against Death...

An escape is known
- by those who have tread well the path.
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Also, an awesome idea this thread was, at least in my opinion.k :)
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Dear Hickersonia,

Love your poem...
Me too, I think this thread is wonderful...I love poems..all poems, love/sad/brokenheart/dhamma etc.

yawares :tongue: :jumping:
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