Hallway to Nowhere

Tag: buddhist

  • Thankfulness Tea Cup (Poem)

    Steam rises from the cup.

    Consider these things.

    I am so grateful to have tea.

    I bow down to the earth that nourished it.

    I bow down to the farmers that grew it.

    I bow down to the masters that crafted it.

    I bow down to the workers that transported it.

    Om Mani Padme Hung.

    “May all beings have happiness and the cause of happness.

    May they be free of suffering and the cause of suffering.

    May they never be disassociated from the supreme happiness which is without suffering.

    May they remain in the boundless equanimity, free from both attachment to close ones and rejection of others. “

  • Emptiness Tea Cup (Poem)

    Steam rises from the tea.

    Consider these things.

    The cup which contains the tea

    Has already been shattered.

    The tea itself has been consumed.

    Gate gate paragate

    Parasamgate bodhi svaha.

    “Gone, gone, gone beyond,

    Gone altogether beyond,

    Oh, what an awakening! All hail!”