https://buddhasadvice.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/useful-speech/
What’s So Great About Now?
A Buddhist Brexit
At times like this not everyone agrees about Brexit and accepting that is hard. I have spent the last few weeks hoping that it wouldn’t progress and that by some amazing miracle it would all disappear and never happen. Sadly as far as I am concerned that wasn’t the case. However it has been an incredible lesson in acceptance and of trying not to allow all this to affect me but that has been harder than expected. It seems like I can’t go a day let alone an hour without constantly checking for updates almost as if I am still hoping that it was all just a bad dream. I realised today that it is very real and that I have no control whatsoever over what is happening but I do have control over what I do to help myself to stay away from this awful mess. I don’t have to be part of it, I don’t have to identify with it or take it so personally and most of all I can just let it all go. I needed to remind myself that as a Buddhist I should try and remember the teachings about letting go and not identifying. As a reminder to myself I found this link and a couple of others which hopefully will be a comfort during this time of uncertainty.
Keeping Perspective in the Brexit Crisis | Wise Attention
The Buddha’s Advice to Lay People
Wise Intention with Politics
Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Is that a light I see in the darkness?
At the end of the tunnel
Where I have hidden for so long
Feeling that I was in a dark hole
Unable to surface.
Suddenly it’s getting brighter
It was just a chink a while ago
But now it’s growing bigger
And I can see much clearer
Now the dark is fading.
My heart feels lighter
My head is clearer
My senses more alive
I see a brighter future
At least for the moment.
This tunnel though
What is it?
A thing of the past
Or thing of the future?
I just don’t know.
Is it somewhere to hide?
Or is it just a place to escape from
Those things that scare me?
Like a frightened rabbit
Scurrying back to safety.
Just To Warn You
Just to warn you
I’m a bit tearful today;
Just in case.
Things have caught up with me a bit
It’s just sunk in but I’ll be okay.
The feelings built up then released like a flood
Like a dam bursting with all the trivial things of the past.
Life is so fragile but now I feel grounded;
And all of a sudden nothing else matters.
I am at peace once again.
W.Parker 2016©
It Is What It Is
It Is What It Is
Sitting here under the trees
Listening to the wind blowing through the leaves
Watching the clouds scud
Across the sky
Is so liberating.
To be at one with nature
Is such a joy
Seeing the trees and branches
Bend with the wind
If only I could be like those trees
I could learn so much from nature
It is what it is.
The Child In Me
In this room surrounded by toys and games
Reminds me of the freedom I once had.
This child in me so helpless and so lost
Hurts so much from things of the past.
Was I misunderstood?
An innocent child.
Frightened into thinking
What I did and thought was so wrong.
I was innocent and natural
I didn’t know
That children should be seen and not heard.
How sad!
The anger arises
Resentment abounds
Why couldn’t I just be who I was…
Just me!
Khemiya 