Making a Difference - the starfish story

Making a Difference - the starfish story

One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean.
Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?”
The youth replied, 

“Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”
“Son,” the man said, “don’t you realize there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can’t make a difference!”
After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it back into the surf. 
Then, smiling at the man, he said… “I made a difference for that one.”

Original Story by: Loren Eisley

Do you have a sticky Mind?

Do you have a sticky Mind?
A point to Notice and Find
Although just see if you but Can
Be like a Non-Stick Frying Pan

Forget the many many Story's
Of your many Hopes and Glory's 
The Fears and possible Tears
That may await in coming Years

Demons haunting your Thoughts
Every imagined outcome, all Sorts
Mind racing for that Distraction
Of Aversion and Attraction
 
But don't also forget Ignorance

The Cock, Pig and Snake's Dance

Emotions not to be keep on Leash

Seeing they are just but a Niche

Find Peace that naturally Abides
Before this life inevitably Subsides
Gain confidence in the Here 'n Now
To Rupa, Wiseman, Our mind we do Bow
 
Remaining, Unaltered and Non-Obtaining
Without ego conniving 'n Straining
Rather than Thinking, Wanting 'n Doing
That death bed is rapidly Ensuing !
 
But Summoning Forth the Wisdom
Realizing all Beings like you are Wholesome
King, boatman or shepherd will you Be
Three Courageous types can you Foresee?

Ego most Go!
© K.Jinpa 2011

Kids poetry

Kids poetry

Do you Wish like a Fish to be not in a Dish
Or Dream like a Bream that can be Seen
Swimming Free do you See such Pleasantry

Do you Roll in a Bog like a Hog or Dog
Race a Course like a Horse of Course
Eat Hunny like a Bunny so Funny
Have a Habbit like a Rabbit to 'Nab' it
Can Laugh with the Calf of a Giraffe
To be Gallant like an Elephant be Triumphant
But have you Sat like a Cat on his Mat!
Hear them purr the mani mantra
This is their form of speech tantra

We all want to be Happy
From life in a Nappy
Through to old age sickness 'n Death
Grasping for that last Breath

When the heart is Open
Present moment is more than enough.
When the heart is Closed,
Even soft words can seem Tough
Unawareness disclosed
Mind to be Awoken
So softly spoken

Ego most Go!
© Peter Dorey 2012

Die Sigh t'end is Nigh !

Die Sigh t'end is Nigh !

Maybe this night I might Die,

Last out breath a great big Sigh,

Above my head my Precious Lama,

Release from this Ocean of Samsara

The fact that I did awake

Should really demonstrate

In my dreams he did feature

Blessings of my Guru Teacher 

© Peter Dorey 2011

Thinking, Wanting, Doing...

Thinking, Wanting, Doing...

Ordinary Mind
You will always nearly Find
Is always Thinking, Wanting and Doing

When blinkered for the Ensuing
Of its soon impending End
New body we Lend

Off again ego
In Samsara endless Show
For we'll never realize we're Crazier

Day by day Year by Year but Lazier
Busier and busier life upon life
For so much strife

© Peter Dorey 2011

Ordinary thinking mind Keeping us so blind

Ordinary thinking mind Keeping us so blind

Ordinary thinking mind
Keeping us so blind
        From true Awareness
        So rare to Witness
When did it start
Or even split apart
        Like the Big Bang
        An almighty clang
Matter, antimatter remnants
Insects animals to plants
        From such a Void
        Attraction or Annoyed
Entanglements arose
Resulting in my prose!

        Set up by conceptuality

        Having no true reality
Ordinary thinking mind
Keeping us so blind
        From true Awareness
        So rare to Witness
When did it start
Or even split apart
        Like the Big Bang
        An almighty clang
Matter, antimatter remnants
Insects, animals and plants
        From such a Void
        We Attract, Ignore or Avoid
Entanglements arose
Resulting in your nose!

© Peter Dorey 2010

GPF and H&F

GPF and H&F

Remaining is the Ground

     (To hear mantras in Sound)

Unaltered is the Path
     (Dieties of Peace & Wrath)
Non-Obtaining is the Fruit
   a    (Dharmakaya Mind being Mute)
     t    Hope & Fear                    i
      u       f                   (Watched in Light so Clear)
       are the Demons                      d                   i
           e   (Rupakaya action assisting Sentient Beings)
           v                                                                  h

           of Mind                                                           t

           i

           d

© Peter Dorey 2011

Maps of TIBET before Occupation by CCP

Dear Son & Daughter

Dear Son & Daughter

Dear son & daughter, I hope you are both well

You make me feel proud, and still very swell

This is a poem I’ve made especially for you

Prompted by memories of times together, that flood through

Bring happiness to my mind, but also make me feel blue

Reminders of cherished moments I longed to repeat

Before they get lost and with age, prone to delete

But I know that time steals away this chance

And for you, too, will soon repeat life’s dance

Feeling deprived of times that cannot be brought

But things change and know they cannot be caught

For I know we can all be together again one day

We are all linked by life’s action in some way

Given a fair wind I know you always could & should

Be the best of life’s children, knowing that you are both very good!

© Peter Dorey 2008

Aware of the awareness?

Aware of the awareness?

Awareness made of nowness

Thoughts and emotions less

than the main mind we're told

Will we realize before we get old?

This truth will maybe then unfold

In the next bardo have we're told

A few more rare precious chances

Of life 'n death's sacred dances!

© Peter Dorey 2010

Stable Abiding

Looking for a stable ground

knowing it can't really be found

From nowness distracted dreams

anything of attracted themes

The rug will be pulled from under

but even though that's plain I blunder

Time lost in ignorance, a diversion

of Attachment and Aversion

Ordinary mind so fickle

the ego's play and tickle

So cunning, slippery and tricky

judging, condemning, very picky

Seeking a happiness from outside

can't sit contented and just abide

© Peter Dorey 2010

Days of Drama & Karma

A glorious day does unfold
The future not now to be told
God's plan, fate or Karma
It's just part of life's drama
If we knew the outcome
The prospect would be no fun
The Universe in a state of flux
Thro’ Interdependence it trucks
Very neatly into an overall plan
Will he find a woman she a man?
© Peter Dorey 2010

Snaky ego a slither

There lying on towpath

fear jumped to show

Made you little laugh

simile for our ego

Just a shoe lace

not that slithering snake

Almost heart did race 

funny what to make

In mind's hectic pace

© Peter Dorey 2011
(Photo credit to K.A.)

Is that rightly so ...?

is that rightly so
if it pleases thy ego
but for there don't go I
but helps us get by
in this shared delusion
not a just collusion
but there is this force
we follow blindly of course
it doesn't exist except
we have to accept
relative and absolute truth
being you own sleuth
our obstacle is labelling
fixation robbing meddling
as a dream controller
we let it smoulder
the watcher must go!
cast a spell on the ego!

Is that rightly so
If it pleases thy ego
For there don't go I
But helps us get by
Hurling your diatribe
Sugary but to abide
Or maybe sycophantic
Can be quite pedantic
In this shared delusion
Is it just a collusion
But there is this force
We follow blindly of course
It doesn't exist except
We have to really accept
Relative and absolute truth
Being you own sleuth
Our obstacle is labelling
Blinding and a disabling
And fixation robbing us
In this samsaric fuss
As a dream controller
We let it simmer and smoulder
The watcher must go!
Cast a spell on the ego!

© Peter Dorey 2011