Poems
Meaninglessly in Existence 30 October 2010
The world
merely puppets
churning
meaninglessly
recycled
again, and yet, again
till its end is seen
as its beginning of time
nothing happened save a dream
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All Lost 30 October 2010
seeing
yet not seeing what’s in front
knowing
yet unknown to what is amiss
as in hide and seek
seeking is forgotten
hidden no longer known
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Oblivion 30 October 2010
unknown of myself
not even the grass
what more the colours
or the wind
that breezes pass
dwelling
oblivion to what is
except in experience
even that, not knowing
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Uncompromised 17 June 2010
hanging
balancing
at the very tip
ego robs
irrelevant
surrendering
letting go
ego nowhere seen
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Am I deluding myself? 17 June 2010
What held me back
Is what I am holding on
What upset me back
Is what I am resisting
What deluded me
Is what I am ignoring
What is hidden
Will be revealed
Only until I faced with it
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What if the Buddha is born elsewhere
Will he be called “Buddha”?
Or any other possible label?
What if not Pali, but a different language?
A different life time, a different world cycle
Surely the past Buddhas are not called Buddhas?
Is there a buddhist, or merely a practitioner?
Regardless of label, she aims for total freedom?
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Leaves are no different than this body
It changes with time
Arising and passing off
To be replaced with yet another
If both have the same nature
As fleeting as a bubble
Why then do I give specialness
To this body or to anybody?
Am I not making a hierarchy
Out of this illusionary nature?
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I express my needs
But you misinterpreted me
Is it that you are not listening
Or am I missing a point here?
Am I doing the same to you
When I think you misinterpreted me
Is it that I am not listening
Or you are missing a point here?
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To Listen, to Hear? 2 Feb 2010
What’s the difference
Though both are heard?
In form it looks the same
In essence, one is Doing
The other, Being.
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What’s the difference in Form? 1 Feb 2010
How would I know
Whether you are meditating
Or sleeping?
For both are as still as dead
I can only be sure
By the posture you take
But then again
What has posture
Got to do with meditation?









