Split Thread - "Happiness" in Buddhism and Zen

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  • Tai Shi
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    • Oct 2014
    • 3447

    #46
    Planes, Hearts, and Joints

    I sit most days with physical
    My arm with elbow tight
    My new knee with titanium joint
    My neck with fore discs so bright
    Mine is the disease of joints
    Ankylosing Spondylitis can you
    Say the syllables that is the point
    Before I say retire will you say
    My day is Bengal Tiger
    Or Vietnamese Cardiologist
    Dr. Pham escaped to a place
    My heart's pacemaker into
    This no-hair chest, wonder
    Thousands of men like me
    Write of Courage to Be
    Buddha universal being
    From the desire to desire, one
    Finds form in a personal pyre
    Beware day's spring warms joints
    Places never visited on days
    Fortune reads wired news
    Personal criticisms never visited
    Never asked for, the reason
    My Cardiologist says my heart
    Will last another 10 years
    He tells me stories about
    Escaping socialism
    Becoming boatman at age fourteen
    His only desire to make US show
    Become a doctor, swam to fishing
    Boat, taken to foster family
    Sure we have a bed, father, mother
    Slaughtered as father had fought
    Along with US soldiers, boy
    Becoming doctor says he knows
    My joints drive me crazy, I say
    Not like too much drink 30 years
    Ago, we say together, there's always
    Something deep within, now
    We are free from the tiger who
    Is not free in India, nor snow leopard
    Off endangered lists, he climbs one
    More High mountain, as one's
    Partner escaped to the Pali
    Rejecting Mahayana, Theravada,
    We both practice freedom no one
    Can say he's not met our fire, upon
    Fire, we are both in our sixties
    He says he'll never retire he's
    The most loved surgeon at Sanford
    Hospital, I'm lucky to have health
    Undone, nothing left undone, dove depends
    In fire as jets flame over the head, Spitfire,
    So many without a doctor left to die
    Oh, Buddha, we sit in Metta, Metta.


    Tai Shi
    sat toda/lah
    Gassho
    Peaceful, Tai Shi. Ubasoku; calm, supportive, for positive poetry 優婆塞 台 婆

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