Buddha reflections

Reflections on the Buddha Word elucidated by Ven. Bhikkuni Kusuma to the Sunday Skype group.

The Itinerant Being
What brought me here?
Wanting to be.
That made me live 
in a particular way;
doing both good and bad,
depending on how I felt.
But feelings are like the wind,
They come and go,
and so I drift
between joy and woe,
not knowing the Truth
that this is all an illusion -
the aggregates of body and mind
which masquerade as me!
Nothing lasts.
All is in flux;
an endless arising and ceasing,
clinging to what we like
and pushing away what we don’t.
Life after life,
on this treadmill of becoming,
leading to the same destination, always -
To death.

So now we realise
the futility of it all.
We must hasten and strive
to step off the wheel.
The mind is the key -
Purify it!
Know it and see it!
Only then will we actually
Intuit the deathless!

A.W.