OUT IN THE WOODS

   

                

             Both of my two big brothers are dead.

 I don't miss them. I didn't like it when they croaked but I got over it quick. 

My Mother, Father, Step-Mother, two brothers, aunts uncles cousins here and there, friends-a-plenty

                    I don't miss anyone, ever. I don't like it when they go, for a minute.

Buddho Buddho Buddho is the simple send-off of my lineage, 

I only say it if I feel it because it's really powerful and I don't want to interfere

 I don't pine, I wait. I don't mind, I don't care.

 A pang now and then, unexplored and unhonored is that path going through my life

an unmarked trail

I am uncluttered that way

                           I don't expect. I mean as an activity, I do not stand around expecting

or sit either

  I accept everything I can and will continue to, I am thinking.

This way, my way, the way was instilled in me, I learned how to be when I was very young and I never lost it.

After I read two different books, I stopped worrying about not worrying because I used to

I went to interest, curiosity. Not the cat-killing kind, though.

"Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" and "What The Buddha Taught"

Mahayana, Chogyam Trungpa.

Tibet's mighty Himalayan rivers descended, carrying forth the working mans Buddhism

 Theravada, Wahula Rapula

Maybe, just maybe, (you can't prove otherwise) it was just so I could read Wahula Rapulas book, someone somewhere along there started trying to remember what Sid actually was trying to say and wrote it down and we get whatever that turned into by now.

"What The Buddha Taught"

The Irrawaddy Delta filled up with humans looking for food, we still do that

Usually, almost everything was going pretty good. It's hard to invade or even want to invade a giant swamp. Of course, right around 1825 the British decided to help out rice farmers and then keep their rice and not pay for it. Probably some Huns or Vikings rolled through now and then raising hell before them, probably some Hindus and Chinese guys too, it wasn't easy though, the people knew how to use the river and wetlands and the Huns did not. 

If they had adopted Christianity, they would have fought, if they had adopted Islam, they could have fought. Buddhists though, don't fight like that

Buddhists don't kill shit. They try really hard not to injure anything either. Since Buddhists know everything is going to change, is changing right now, they generally don't care much for fighting either.

Myanmar claims a "Buddhist Army," they go kill Muslims that live in the same country because they are criminals and they are dirty. The person that the military is allied with, says it's ok to do that, Aung San Soo Kyi, so she isn't Buddhist either. You can chant and meditate all you want, you break, violate precepts, you ain't for real.

Just so you know, there can be no Buddhist army. If there was, they would go give all their gear to their foes and then help them on their farms.

If they got killed, they'd say,"see you later."