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DINTY W. MOORE is author of "The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment,and Sitting Still--American Style," by Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, N.C. He lives in State College, Penn., and credits ladybugs in his garden for teaching him about impermanence.
DOLL of MEAT
"Mind wanders in this doll of meat."
---Allen Ginsberg
skin, they say
 is the boundary
between the self
and the not self
an illusion
because there is
no self
not to be
but here is what
I do not know
how does the skin
get there?
WHY BUDDHISTS MAKE
LOUSY CONSUMERS
A Lesson in Non-Attachment From His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
even I like to go shopping
sometimes
I will see
a beautiful camera
and I will think
I want this
and the second thought always
do you really need it?
and then the answer
always
oh, no,
I already have it
AFTERMATH OF
THE HURRICANE
The dead gull's
wind-hoisted wing
 waves farewell
on the causeway as my poet
buddha mind flees the battered island
Cracked, crooked, free
of all illusion
the dead gull's
poet buddha skeleton
scatters dharma like feathers
In the end of the storm
there is the stillness
of death
SAMADHI
not when the monkey settles
on the rocker on the porch of
your mind
sees the orange spill of sky
and thinks
I need to find a better job
not when the monkey settles
on the rocker on the porch of
your mind
sees the orange splash of sunset
and thinks
I hope this lasts forever
but rather when the monkey
notices only that something has happened to the sky
and later sees that it is dark
POEM ON ALMOST SEEING
HIS HOLINESS THE 14TH
DALAI LAMA IN
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, July 1996
May my heart at all times be compassionate
My heart, at all times be compassionate
At all times, be compassionate
All times, be compassionate
Times, be compassionate
Be compassionate
Be
Be compassionate
Be compassionate to all
Be compassionate even to the lady
Even to the lady who blocks my view
My view of the Dalai Lama after I drove
Fourteen hours in the August heat
just to catch a glimpse
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