1.

sweet sacred silence

free from bondage

lotus blooms

eastern hill

buddha sits cross-legged-

lotus points to heaven

wheel of dharma

sermon on the mount-

parallel parable

shaolin* monastery

remembers for years zazen*-

bodhidharma* on the wing

2.

snowpeaks  of  bodhi tree

afraid of nuclear war

solicit second coming

bodhi tree witnesses

holy warrior’s

still gaze

deliverance

out of  nuclear chaos-

Meditation under  bodhi  tree

Meditating  buddha

 getting calls from Jesus:

Peace will follow

NOTES

1. Dharma is generally defined as ‘righteousness’ or ‘duty’.

2. Sermon on the Mount: This is the greatest sermon Christ ever preacheed.

3. Shaolin monastery is in China.

4. Zazen: Sitting meditation.

5. Bodhidharma (470 A. D.) spent nine years in meditation facing the wall.