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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Monday, October 19, 2020

Buddha Masque #3

 

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

 

         Buddha Masque #3

Right observation of cause and effect

disciplines the five senses to the power of will

Action moves in the direction of thought

Wisdom appears from the pure and peaceful mind

Sympathetic mind resists the evil heard

Wild words controlled arouse no hatred or anger

Impurity of thought is but a laugh to the old

The idea of fire is not a match for the will of the cold

Old snakes climb mountains the young would not try

If a bird has two heads one eats sweet fruit

The jealous other eats the bitter fruit of spite

To choose between demons is to trade the self for a corpse

Peace and harmony reside in the internal struggle of the mind

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