suffering

Poem: Voices of Madness – I – self

if only you could touch me
you might see me
if only you might see me
you might touch me

Haikus #95-103 Grasping

one breath
after another
existential grasping!

Death Poem #1 plus Life Haiku

Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going-
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.

Buddhism 101 #1 The Three Marks of Existence

Suffering, impermanence and egolessness.

Notes from the Secretary: Upcoming new Buddhism 101 series

The Three Marks of Existence coming soon…

After pasting in the Cornfields painting for Haiku #5 by once-pastor to impoverished mining community Van Gogh, and who inspired one of the characters in Emile Zola’s famous work ‘Germinal’ and who later died a patient suffering from mental illness induced by a lifetime of outer world hardships and failures, the following haiku arose, imaginingContinue reading “Haiku #6 Van Gogh’s Blessings”