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Once Upon a Time: Stories & Poems of the Dharma
Spring 2013   Vol. 29 #2
Spring 2013   Vol. 29 #2

Poems/Not Poems

The Six Paramitas

By Henri Picciotto

 
 
© 2013 Henri Picciotto

Across

1  It’s usually done sitting down

9  It was a violation of Jim Crow

10  It is not fixed or separate

11  Distinguishing right from wrong

13  To live, according to a noble truth

14  It can be conventional

18  This virtue is a challenge for the restless

20  _____ for practice can lead to liberation

22  To exaggerate the importance of one’s own story

23  Antidote to greed

 

Down

2  A Buddha’s are elongated

3  Zafus are lined up __________ (3 words)

4  Part of the Mediterranean

5  Saddam Hussein, for one

6  Serve the __________

7  You aren’t allowed to give these to a Bhikkhu, or hugs, either

8  Minnesota college, named after a martyr and king of Norway (2 words)

12  Fullback in soccer, or guard in basketball

15  Kills (2 words)

16  One who makes flour

17  Buddha’s robe is made of _______ of charnal rag

18  Tine

19  Ten- to twelve-year old

21 The actors in a play

 

For answers, click here.

 

∞

 

From the Spring 2013 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 29, No. 2)
© 2013 Henri Picciotto

Author

Henri Picciotto is a puzzle constructor for The Nation, and a math educator. He has been a non-Buddhist and a disciple of Tofu Roshi for more than thirty years.

Author

Henri Picciotto is a puzzle constructor for The Nation, and a math educator. He has been a non-Buddhist and a disciple of Tofu Roshi for more than thirty years.

 
 
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