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Buddhist mindfulness tastes like vinegar

  • David Smith
  • Apr 12, 2018
  • 1 min read

Buddhist mindfulness tastes like vinegar

and while may be good for you

Mindlessness Bhakti tastes like Sherry

and is sweet with far more vigor

If they were truly mindful,

They would write instead of a book

Just an article.

All that they have to say is in the first chapter any ways.

A real master can transfer power directly

If you want to see light

Why go into a black hole?

If they can’t sit still

Maybe they should be electrocuted

They have the discipline but not the bait

Who knows how long they have to wait

In SatGuru Bhakti you are hit with a bolt

Of lightning

Even so vinegar is sweeter than sugar.

Buddha should be punished for leaving such a tradition

Shams, Rumi, Hafez, Attar, Nanak, Kabir, Tuka, are my preference,

While giving Buddha only reverence,

The monastics just sit in prison

Something I don’t envision

Mystics have more poetic lustre

Without a filibuster

Mindfulness practitioners lack real heat

And some if them still eat meat.

They can not even claim the kundalini.

Which is another kind of genie.

To not have a guru

Is smart thinking

If you want broad appeal

But it could just be for your ego ideal

And won’t lead to the real.

For that you must kneel.

DS Poem

April 12, 2018

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