Freeman

 Freeman

Let my mind

Toy and joy with

With compassion, kindness and equanimity

Let it be that nobody

Believe in something

Since it is

The tradition to do so

Or it is in the scriptures

Or it is hearsay

Heresy

And my teacher said so

Let there be no bias

Towards a notion

Specious reasoning

Faith

Liking

Soothing to the ear

For repeated hearing

Do not go upon

By rumour

Nor upon surmise

Nor upon a lovely axiom

Or just by pondering over

But by ones own realization

Greed, hate and ignorance

Are not the root causes?

The birth, decay and death

Are the miseries

And until one knows

By oneself

That what must be done?

Has been done

There is no more to be done

No more to come

The life has been exhausted.

Truly

The freedom is achieved

From within

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Mind Boggling Question

Mind is

Fluid

Frequently

Flying

To reach

A distant goal

Flitting

And Fleeing

Why not call

It a mystery?

Which it is

Instead of the

Ill conceived

Ill understood

All abiding

All encompassing

Term called consciousness

Which truly

Is a misnomer par excellence

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Buddha the unsung Environmentalist

Buddha the unsung Environmentalist

I often wondered
Why Buddha
Did not
Utter
A terse verse
On the mother nature?

Then again
He is one
Who lived
Half of his life
Under the shade
Of trees and caves
That mother nature
Had plenty then
Even in India

One who shed attachment
To dwellings of
All kinds
Be that it may be
Physical or psychological
He was wise
Not to trod on
To Climate,
Global Warming
A debate which illustrates
The fickle
And transient
Nature of
Material World

But where did he
Attained
The Enlightenment
Of all?

Was not
Under a bright floral tree?
Knowing
Even the flora is transient
But under a Bo tree
Which gave
Shelter
From harsh elements
But bears tiny fruits
The avian fauna
Love to eat
When hungry

Didn’t he
As a gesture of gratitude?
Gazed at the very
Bo Tree
In solid contemplative mediation
For a week on stretch
I wonder, I wonder

How can I say
He is not
An environmentalist?
Not by preach
But by precept
And practice

Asoka

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