Duhkha*
life seems so easy
amidst soft summer breezes
keep an eye upon the future:
ice, rain, snow
danger from within: illness, pride, sin
danger from without: war, diease,,wipeout
Buddhas of Bamiyan hewn directly
from sandstone cliffs
destroyed by the Afghan Taliban
after 2000 years,
in the name of God
what an irony
for the close-minded Mullahs
their destruction of the Buddhas
serves to shows us once again
how humans crave
& cling to impermanent things
incapable of satisfying us
just bring us more suffering.
amidst soft summer breezes
keep an eye upon the future:
ice, rain, snow
danger from within: illness, pride, sin
danger from without: war, diease,,wipeout
Buddhas of Bamiyan hewn directly
from sandstone cliffs
destroyed by the Afghan Taliban
after 2000 years,
in the name of God
what an irony
for the close-minded Mullahs
their destruction of the Buddhas
serves to shows us once again
how humans crave
& cling to impermanent things
incapable of satisfying us
just bring us more suffering.
* – Duḥkha (/ˈduːkə/; Sanskrit:दुःख; Pāli: dukkha) is an important Buddhist concept, commonly translated as “suffering”, “pain”, “unsatisfactoriness” or “stress”. It refers to the fundamental unsatisfactoriness and painfulness of mundane life.
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John Marks
Sun 12th Jan 2025 21:17
Thank you Holden, Aisha, RBK and Rolph. Yes. RBK Sanskrit, being such an ancient language, is open to wide interpretation in this case including impoverishment and destitution. Thank you Rolph for taking the trouble to comment. I think it is the promise of permanence that kills us, sometimes literally, I recently lost a beloved friend to suicide. Buddhism seeks to allow us to be reconciled to the fact that Impermanence is a permanent condition of human life.