I have an answer for Greed, Let go.
I have an answer for fear, lets go talk
I have a message for all of us.
The answers are all out there.
I'm not inventing anything new.
Sages in many places,
have shared the same point of view.
The answers are all there,
Our problem is not asking questions
I have a question for the Greedy:
What good do you do?
Does all that wealth really help you?
Does it make you more secure?
Have you had a coronary?
Do you need a bypass?
Does it make you feel healthy,
to be so fat when others are so thin?
I have a question for the Angry:
Who do you think you are fooling?
When you puff yourself so full of air?
Do you really think others can't sense the fear?
Have you considered all you've stepped on,
to get where you are?
Have you considered that all your anger,
is only your pain?
Are those you hate cockroaches?
Or are they people?
I have a question for the rich and powerful:
Who do you really owe?
Was it the mother who bore you?
The Doctor who eased your birth?
What role does the laborer play,
Who brought you food from the earth?
Don't you know you stand on the shoulders of giants?
And that when you build oppression,
you are oppressing your brother?
I have a question for the fearful:
Why not stand up tall and proud?
Don't You have rights?
Are you not as good as good as any other?
Yes, are not the rich and powerful your brothers?
Do you not know, you have a jewel in your coat?
Don't you know that Enlightenment is there for attaining?
Let us cultivate fearlessness!
Mindfulness not mindlessness!
Can't you stand up for yourself?
Are you so beaten down that you can't rise up?
Do you think that all your toil has no merit?
If so, won't you change your mind?
The only chains we wear are the ones on our brains.
Chris
Posted by cholte at May 12, 2009 05:59 AM