Mind the Dao

Category: Poetry

  • On the Wisdom of Knife Wielding

    On the Wisdom of Knife Wielding

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    by

    Patrick
    in ,

    Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, & free themselves from the fools. The master takes a knife and butters her toast; she creates no attachments to fools, or the wise.

  • Weapons are the tools of violence

    Weapons are the tools of violence

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    by

    Patrick
    in , ,

    Meditations on Two Photographs The obscenity of war has many faces: Some face down and dead in awful places. Some, thumbs up and beaming like a boy In some dark death machine posed like a toy.

  • Be Mindful; Become Mindfulness: Awaken

    Be Mindful; Become Mindfulness: Awaken

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    by

    Patrick
    in

    Be Mindful; Become Mindfulness:Awaken Be mindful of what you think;         thoughts will be spoken. Be mindful of what you speak;         words become action. Be mindful of what you do;         deeds express character. Become mindful of who you are;         see the fate you had created. Become mindful of the moment;         awaken to the possibility of now.…