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  • will
    Member
    • Jun 2007
    • 2331
    #1

    The Greatest Buddha

    A poem that partially came to me this morning. The rest is just improvised:




    I am the greatest Buddha that ever lived.

    Yet I am Dirt and Ash.

    The universe keeps expanding

    And I am a speck.

    I am the Greatest Buddha that ever lived.

    Yet, I still shit.

    My bones get old,

    And the Autumn turns to Spring, turns to winter, turns to summer,

    If only summer, then fine.

    If only winter, then fine.

    I can't change the summer by Saying "Hey summer! Change!"

    I am the Greatest Buddha that ever lived.
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    To save all sentient beings, though beings are numberless.
    To penetrate reality, though reality is boundless.
    To transform all delusion, though delusions are immeasurable.
    To attain the enlightened way, a way non-attainable.
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    • Jundo
      Treeleaf Founder and Priest
      • Apr 2006
      • 40974
      #2
      Re: The Greatest Buddha

      Buddha never lived, cause never born and never passing ...

      Just same old shit.

      Gassho, J
      ALL OF LIFE IS OUR TEMPLE

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        • will
          Member
          • Jun 2007
          • 2331
          #3
          Re: The Greatest Buddha

          Originally posted by Jundo
          Buddha never lived, cause never born and never passing ...

          Just same old shit.

          Gassho, J
          But I can still write a frickin poem.

          Kidding.


          It's called morning sickness for Buddhas.

          That was actually, more about bringing "people, Gurus, and things to a greater level then we can relate to. Instead of recognizing ourselves as Buddha. Hence "The greatest Buddha that ever lived". But whatever, could have a few meaning I guess.

          Gotta Go

          Gassho

          W
          [size=85:z6oilzbt]
          To save all sentient beings, though beings are numberless.
          To penetrate reality, though reality is boundless.
          To transform all delusion, though delusions are immeasurable.
          To attain the enlightened way, a way non-attainable.
          [/size:z6oilzbt]

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            • Omoi Otoshi
              Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 801
              #4
              The Greatest Buddha

              You live, the unborn Buddha is you.

              I like your line, "I am the greatest Buddha that ever lived". It's like a Koan! Playing with the absolute and the relative, the unfathomable and the obvious. It caught my interest!

              Good shit!

              Gassho,
              Pontus
              In a spring outside time, flowers bloom on a withered tree;
              you ride a jade elephant backwards, chasing the winged dragon-deer;
              now as you hide far beyond innumerable peaks--
              the white moon, a cool breeze, the dawn of a fortunate day

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                • Omoi Otoshi
                  Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 801
                  #5
                  The Greatest Buddha

                  Originally posted by will
                  The universe keeps expanding

                  And I am a speck.
                  A speck that contains the whole universe!

                  /Pontus
                  In a spring outside time, flowers bloom on a withered tree;
                  you ride a jade elephant backwards, chasing the winged dragon-deer;
                  now as you hide far beyond innumerable peaks--
                  the white moon, a cool breeze, the dawn of a fortunate day

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                    • will
                      Member
                      • Jun 2007
                      • 2331
                      #6
                      Re: The Greatest Buddha

                      Originally posted by Omoi Otoshi
                      Originally posted by will
                      The universe keeps expanding

                      And I am a speck.
                      A speck that contains the whole universe!

                      /Pontus
                      And neither.

                      Gassho

                      W
                      [size=85:z6oilzbt]
                      To save all sentient beings, though beings are numberless.
                      To penetrate reality, though reality is boundless.
                      To transform all delusion, though delusions are immeasurable.
                      To attain the enlightened way, a way non-attainable.
                      [/size:z6oilzbt]

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                        • threethirty
                          Member
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 170
                          #7
                          Re: The Greatest Buddha

                          excellent poem
                          --Washu
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