BEAUTY THE BEAST

Feelings sublime 
By beauty induced,


Deceive.


The world chasing
Happiness and joy,
Causes of sorrow pursues.

An odd quirk
Something so appealing
Charged with sweet emotion
In reality reduces peace.

The high pitched melody of love
Is called by the wise ones,
Defilement,
A sugar coated poison.

Beginning and end
Time spent
Long hours
Fleeting moments become
Life is but a dream sweet heart

Now, always
Scenery changes
Ever changing, rearranging
Holding on to beautiful things
Change wrenches, pain starts,
Life is but a dream sweet heart

Traveler mind
Leaves behind
Beauty and beast
Ugly and divine
Breathing deep
Awake and fine
Life is but a dream sweet heart.

Awake in the dream
Peace and glow
Shining heart
To the sufferers show
With expedient boom
The way out of gloom.

THE WAY OUT 
EMERGENCY
EVACUATION
 PROCEDURE

No matter what 
Happens around me
No matter what
Situations materialize
No matter what 
People say or do

I will practice so that 
I remain in peace,
contentment and bliss
Liberated completely
Free from fear, insecurity,
anger, greed, craving,
Attachment, pettiness
And possessiveness
With only preferences
And no addictions
Forever breathing
From the stomach
With enlightened 
Energy and purity
I will strive to help all beings

The pleasure 
And intoxication of love
Is transitory
What seems
Like something profound
Is an illusion
Like shantideva said,
Pleasure is like honey
On the edge of a sword
In this matter of happiness 
Pleasure, contentment and bliss
Things are exactly the opposite 
Of what they seem to be.
Wanting to hold on
 to the source of our pleasure
That very wanting 
Destroys our contentment, 
Our peace.
Not at peace, 
Our mind becomes confused.
A confused mind is weak
And pain, suffering 
And vexations inevitably follow.

Letting the source 
Of our pleasure go
Setting it free,
Not trying to possess it,
Is the only way,
Because pleasure is transitory
Know this as the truth
Like we can eat 
Without being addicted to food
Similarly love
Without being attached to love
That attachment
Will cause suffering and pain
It will obstruct enlightenment
And will halt 
All bodhisattva activity.
To help yourself 
And all sentient beings
Free themselves from suffering,
There is nothing more precious
than to be content
To be free of craving,
Free of anger
It is thus that the ancients said,
The superior man
Keeps his anger under control
And has few desires
As thoughts flit through the mind
Profound thoughts,
Thoughts of love, family, hate
Strength, weakness, whatever
Know them to be illusions
That make up “I”
Who thinks that it is separate
And strives and calculates
To protect itself from others
And is jealous, insecure,
Greedy and fearful.

Lose the I

To do this moment by moment
Disregard any thought that arises
Treat it like pure junk
Not an insight,
Or a special intuition or vision
Just let it go
And dwell always in contentment
In clarity, in your 
Here and now reality
Unattach, unattach, let go, let go
You don't need anything
You come alone 
and naked you go
Your likes, dislikes, 
Attractions, aversions,
Wants, needs, desires,
Fears, addictions 
Will bring you suffering
And will be the chains
That bind you to samsara
And block enlightenment