Sunday, February 8, 2009

The Dharma Youth League (a poem by Ken Walden)


I went to visit several thousand gold buddhas
They sat there all through the war, --
They didn't appear just now because I happened to be in
town
Sat there six hundred years. Failures.
Does Buddha fail. Do I.
Some day I guess I'll never learn.

(Written by Ken Walden in Kyoto, Japan in 1966.)

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