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Poems by
Venenerable Yantra Amaro


Nothing to Have, Nothing to Be

Have as if you have not.
Be as if you be not.
Actually there is nothing to have or to be.
There is only the stream of the flow
Of nature, only nature!
There is no true creature, person, or self.
The Pali says:
SUDDHI DHAMMA PAVATTANTI
Only pure Dhamma-Nature rolls on.
SABBE DHAMMA ANATTA
All Dhamma is non-self.
To have and to be come afterwards.
Nothing lasts: what rises, falls.
So, there is nothing we can have and hold forever.
Before have is have not.
Before is is is not.
Both have and is are illusions,
conditions made to believe.
To detach from conditions,
To relinquish one's hold,
These are the ways to rise above suffering


 

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