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Winter 1984   Vol. 1 #2
Winter 1984   Vol. 1 #2

Poems/Not Poems

Review of John Avedon's INTERVIEW WITH THE DALAI LAMA

By Alia Johnson

 
 

 

So even the Dolly Llama hisself said it, that if you’ve sat all this time and your bum is sore and your knees has cricks in em and you’ve had about all the sex dreams and power dreams you can have, and the sky of your mind is getting kinda clear, but still there’s a self there, the D.L. says it’s okay because even the Buddha himself had a self. And those winds he talks about, that form whatever we are, well I feel them sometimes when it’s a little while before the movie starts and Else has gone out for popcorn and I’m sitting there and this thing moves through me it could be one of them four winds but before I know it Else is back rubbing my thigh and the salt is on my tongue. The D.L. says we should be good human beings and not drink too much beer, and that of all the authorities there are, Exalted Wisdom is best. He looks real sweet in the picture on the cover, but he says he’s the embodiment of the Mahakala the wrathful god, what could that mean? I swear, there’s more going on here than meets the eye.

 


From the Winter 1984 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 1, No. 2)
Text © 1984–2023 by Alia Johnson

Topics

Dalai Lama, Poetry


Author

Sangha member Alia Johnson submitted this poem when she lived in Berkeley, California.

Author

Sangha member Alia Johnson submitted this poem when she lived in Berkeley, California.

 
 
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