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So Much Happens

By Judith Stronach

A Drawing

By Maria Freebairn-Smith

Cartoon

By Steve Armstrong

The Yankee and the Yogi

By Steve Armstrong

Finding Gold

By Eric Kolvig

The Slang Sutra

By Wes Nisker

Who Says My Poems Are Poems?

By Ryokan

In Our Secret Solstice

By B. Blake Levitt

Another Life Blip

By Alan Clements

Gotama in the Twentieth Century

By Jan Alovus

Do You Know How to Workover a Poem?

By Jack Kornfield

On Throwing the Lobster into the Sea

By Jack Kornfield

Why We Should Drop the Bombs

By Alia Johnson

Suffering Seeker

By Alia Johnson

Review of John Avedon's INTERVIEW WITH THE DALAI LAMA

By Alia Johnson

Schizophrenic Sutra

By Wes Nisker

For Jack Kornfield's "On Throwing The Lobster Into The Sea"

By Allen DeLoach

Ode to Ms Mindfulness

By Wes Nisker

Cartoon!

By Dewey Livingston, Wes Nisker

Whose Voice Is This?

By Della Cyrus

Alone

By Judith Anne Azrael

Called It Loneliness

By Rebecca Radner

Haiku Riddle

By Sylvia Boorstein

Four Short Poems

By Rebecca Radner, Judith Anne Azrael, Della Cyrus, Sylvia Boorstein

Table Manners

By Jan Alovus

The Art of Haiku

By Wes Nisker

Our Mother

By Susan Griffin

Notes: Ten Poems by Women

By Barbara Gates

Taking a Walk

By Ella Mental

Dow / Tao

By Scoby Beer

The Bear Mother

By Gary Snyder

In Case of Holocaust Open This Poem

By Eric Kolvig

India Pilgrimage

By Nina Wise

Buddhist Humor

Mind

By Anne Waldman

Kid's Poetry Pages

Cartoons!

To Papa-ji

By Nina Wise

Earth and Something Else

By Ruth Wren

Two Poems

By Jill Bart

Ode to Denial

By Alia Johnson

The Art of Bette Alexander

Poetry by Pablo Neruda

By Judith Stronach

Three Poems

By Narayan

under the tulip tree at the monastery

By George Taylor

The Tune of Nothingness

By Dan Clurman

The Berkeley Marina at Dusk

By Dan Clurman

To David

By Dan Clurman

What a Wonderful World

By Norman Fischer

Be Kind

By William Buchanan

A Discovery

By William Buchanan

All We Like Sheep

By Janet Keyes

Mrs. The Buddha

By Janell Mosgofian

The Big Fat Belly of the Laughing Buddha Man

By Dane Cervine

Breakdown

By Jari Chevalier

Teachings: Words from the Buddha on Compassionate Action

from Cassowary

By Anita Barrows

THE BIRTH OF THE BUDDHA

By Norman Fischer

AnSWeR to PuZzlE

WoRd pUzZLe

By Susan Moon, Wes Nisker

On Our Own

By Rachel Norton

Home

By Susan Griffin

Shura

By Stephan Bodian

The Dream Corridor

By Rick Fields

Sky-Diving

By Rick Fields

Expressions of Impermanence

By Andrew Olendzki

Mr. Lucky

By Richard Kohn

Recipe for Unhappiness

By Fred Moramarco

The Dream

By Gary Turchin

Consciousness

By Gary Turchin

The Hair Piece

By Virginia Ray

Three Poems

By Judith Stronach

Putting On a Sweater

By Ellen Bass

On a Bare Autumn Morning

By Laura Foley

May Day Toast, for the Workers of the World

By Gary Snyder

Listen Up, Bodhisattvas & Wisdom Warriors: A Spontaneous Song in the Form of Reminders to Myself

By Lama Surya Das

secret oral instructions on practice

By Kyabje Künzang Dechen Lingpa, Mike Dickman

Smokey the Bear Sutra

By Gary Snyder

A Zebra Moment

By Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Early Morning

By Gail Stark

All for the Birds

By Art Hofmann

Poem for Tê´t / The Well by the Trail to My An

By Ted Sexauer

Humiliated in the Shackles

By Sami al Haj

Two Cup Poems

By Shaikh Abdurraheem Muslim Dost

Weed and Star / Drink of This

By Clare Morris

Haiku

By Gary Gach

Poem for Peace

By Ko Un

After Lebanon

By Anita Barrows

Atonement

By Gregory Ross

At the Western Pass

By Li Po, Taylor Stoehr

Tu Do Street / Facing It

By Yusef Komunyakaa

Four Haiku

By Karma Tenzing Wangchuk

Haiku

By Sylvia Forges-Ryan

Bombardments / Maps and Guns

By Sean Mclain Brown

America (the soldier said) / Eleven Killed Over the Weekend

By David Plumb

Ashbah

By Brian Turner

ENOUGH

By Kevin Griffin, Wes Nisker

Termites

By Robert Simmons

A Bead on Your String

By Andrew Harvey, Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

An Echo of Wang Wei’s Reply to Vice Magistrate Chang

By Stephen Levine

Kabir Says, Listen

By Kabir, Linda Hess

A Bird Knows No Barbed Wire

By Aaron Hughes

Things to Save

By Jess Hagemann

Poetry Saves: War & Peace Poems

By Ted Sexauer

Japanese Waka: Notes and Translations

By Patrick Donnelly, Stephen D. Miller

The Endless Knot

By Andrew Chaikin

Climbing Mount Ego

By Geraldine Zetzel

I Have Discovered

By Roberta Werdinger

What Scars Will Mark

By Cynthia Schrager

Monkey Mind

By Steve Kanji Ruhl

The Gift

By elana levy

While

By Sean Feit

Wakeup Call

By Meghan Collins

Preparing for my 69th in the Sierra, Freemont Lake at 8,000 feet

By Jerry Bolick

In a Chinese Landscape

By Anne Barrows

The Six Paramitas

By Henri Picciotto

Patience is to Suffice

By Denise Newman

Night Walk

By Peter Blaustein

Crazy Love

By Susan Austin

Skipping Rope (Retreat poem #7)

By Walt Opie

At Zen Mountain Monastery

By Steve Kanji Ruhl

Two Flowers

By Jennifer Tseng

words within words

By Jon Ballangrud

Gomchen

By Matteo Pistono

Flowers fall

By Carolyn Dille

wahl rechargeable hair clipper

By Robert D. Lovitt

Curious

By Jerry Bolick

Where Got Me to Here

By Ron Crowcroft

I was singing

By Gary Turchin

Prayer to the Invisible Breath

By Marty Williams

Haiku Sequence

By Stephanie Baker

Insect Koan

By Minal Hajratwala

Heart

By Jenna Nielsen

Ye Gods! — a word puzzle!

By Andrew Chaikin

Farewell to the World

By Da-hui Zhong-gao, Gary Gach

Mark Time

By Jon Turner

Angel Saying Obvious Things

By Berna Wang

Sleeping

By Jenna Nielsen

Faith & Doubt

By Jennifer Tseng

Parting on the Mountain

By C. H. Kwock, Gary Gach, Wang Wei

After Issa

By Gary Gach

Ode to Ms Mindfulness

By Wes Nisker

To a Firefly

By Gary Gach, Li Bai

Perspective Without Any Point In Which It Might Vanish

By Jane Hirshfield

Taking Leave of a Mountain Hermit

By Gary Gach, Kao Ch'ih

A Torch Is Lit

By Jon Turner

Shadows That Weep

By Jon Turner

Death of Paul Duffy, by Rope, Alone

By Ted Sexauer

Atlas

By Alla Poberesky

I’m Trying to Find Something That Is Not About Me

By Natalie Goldberg

Front Page, New York Times

By Anne Damrosch

The Noise in My Brain

By Dane Cervine