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�Ѵ (Temple)
Ό (Fan)
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A Pile of Ashes

Why be driven by greed?
Why curse and damn others?
Why dote on this and that?
For eventually, all that is left
Is a pile of ashes.

Translator: Chalita Photikoe

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Inescapable

In the early morning
You smile peacefully.
By midmorning
Your health begins to decline.
At noon
You are beyond help.
Around the middle of the day
You try to refresh yourself.
But in the evening
You succumb to death.
It is nightfall
Your corpse begins to rot.



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Ghost

When you are ready to dispose of " I "
     
What ghost can scare you?
When you force the " I " out of you
     
Who can the ghost scare?
When there is no more " I "
     
What can the ghost do now?



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Temple

Q. Is this place the temple?
Why isn't there a pagoda?
Where is the monastery?
     
All I see is a forest
     
   and a cave.
A. If you define a temple
as a pagoda and
     
   a monastery
Then this place is not
     
   a temple.
But if you define a temple
as a place of peace
and kindness
Then, yes, this forest,
this cave, is a temple.


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Fan

A young novice goes to his teacher with a frown on his face.
Novice:   "Teacher, the senior novice says that I have a 'fan' "*
Teacher: "Well, do you have one?"
Novice:  
"No, sir!"
Teacher: "That's too bad. It would be nice if you had one."
Novice:   "Why would it be nice?"
Teacher: "Because in English, 'fan' is a cooling device.
     
      You don't have a fan, so you are hot.
     
      Now go and sweep the temple
     
            and look for a fan in your heart."

* fan in Thai means sweetheart


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Serenity

Novice: "Teacher, my
    
    mind is at peace."
Teacher: "Not yet."
Novice: "But teacher, my
mind is really at peace."
Teacher: "If you still have
    
    'my' then your mind
    
    is not truly at peace."
If you still think of "my
    
     mind"
Then you do not have a mind
    
    at peace.
It is not true serenity.
When you no longer have "I,
    
    me, my"
That is when you have
    
    attained serenity.


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Lotus

The lotus flower blooms
    
    And then closes.
But soon, it opens again
    
    Like the human mind
That wavers from thought to thought
    
    Opening and closing
Never at peace.

 

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