I don’t write in a journal everyday, but I have accumulated many entries over the past 50+ years beginning in 1966. Some items evolved into longer works. Among the leftovers little pieces survived. I thought a collection of these with a piece culled from the same date in a past year would make an interesting yearbook. The consistencies and inconsistencies of mind, skipping back and forth across time, provide varied perspectives. It is difficult to remember the context of the past we’ve lived; we also make suppositions about times that predate ourselves.

The few alterations from original drafts were to improve clarity. The worst of my work is not included. There remains enough mediocrity and immaturity to make me feel humble and you feel smart. There are also moments of accidental insight and incidental humor.

Author Stephen Crane referred to his little pieces as pills…apparently they were small and somewhat hard to swallow, but good for you.


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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Buddha Masque #1


from this week in September, 1991  (I was 46)

Buddha Masque #1
It was for him intense incomparable struggle
filled with desperate confusing thoughts
and shadows overhanging his beleaguered spirit
He has no set form
yet can manifest all forms with any attributes
The moon appears over the city the village the mountain the river
He sometimes appears the incarnation of evil
may be woman god king or statesman
The fourfold noble truth opens the eye
the Truth the Cause the Cessation the Path
Beyond suffering are the eight Rights
Ignorance and greed are desires of blindness
Impermanent ego, nothing is thine
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