First Noble Truth
Now I’m old
Poem · January 1, 2014
Poems & Thoughts of Rob Taylor
Steady Change
As strong wind blows,
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Skating
While skating today, I imagined others together at public rinks.
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Neutral Posture
Small fenced yard behind old neighbor’s house;
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Aging
Aging suggests
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Breath
Without effort,
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Ritual
Running errand,
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Melodrama
Little itch –
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Starting List
One simply needs
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Trade Off
Asked to exchange
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Being trained
Jogging early morn,
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To Simplify
“It’s enjoyable.”
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One Time
Through the careful lace of beech leaves
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The Hard Way
But also,
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Perspective
During the horrible,
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May be important
While young,
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Quiet Moment
Middle aged mom
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Aesthetics
Doing what fits a need
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Simple
Alright,
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This Moment
This plain unadorned and ordinary untouched moment
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A Little Thing
The grass and bearberry stalks rustle quickly,
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Buddha Nature
Buddha nature is somewhat
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Explanation
When I was a child,
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As before
Calamity falls,…
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Preparation
My spectacular successes
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Chatter
After sufficient silence
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Grounds for Reassurance
The wise movement of one’s feet
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Diagnosis
Since our Buddha-mind responds
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Tao
I rejoice in the path
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Wellness
Autoimmune disruption,
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Alienated?
Discovery of serious cancer
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With Thanks for Sitting
As I sit cross legged,
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Not Otherwise
Delayed diagnosis
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Seeking Stillness
Why don’t I do now
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Like the Breath
If you watch,
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Untouched
Alone and all media off,
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School Days
Driving on a pleasant fall afternoon, I saw numbers of kids on their way home from school. They see…
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Psychology
Unlike with electric charge, where a negative draws a positive, psychologically a negative attracts…
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Crows
When a crow comes upon food, he first lands high up and calls to others. After several arrive, they…
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Part of This
Late summer morning
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Thank You
My routines being disrupted by cancer and its treatment, I've very slowly moved back toward little…
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The Beatles
Just saw a documentary on the origin and rise of the Beatles. They started as kids, then youths, an…
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Buddha Nature
Surprisingly, years of recovery continue an improvement. My functioning extends into more things. T…
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Fulfillment
Something needs to be done.
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Meditation
Some meditation is the interest
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To Carry On
An early morning look
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The Need of Meditation in the World
There are different dimensions to meditation.
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Contemplative Acts
A contemplative retreat is not to remove oneself from others
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The Vividness of Dreams
Friday and Saturday I was four hours on the phone. Saturday night, I dreamed I lived in an apartmen…
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How About This?
The existence of God --
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What Dimension
When young,
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Contentment
Lying down early morning, playing in my head,
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Opera
At times,
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Suffering
About to turn left out my drive,
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Mountains and Dirty Roads
Anyone may find them self confused
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Hidden
First time this season,
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Between These Two Shoals
I seem to react more than the norm to two things -
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Square One
Risk all!!
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Swathes of Snow
This winter, I was walking along the path inside the Arboretum’s stone wall by route 203. Then, cut…
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Their Spins Together
Overnight, we dropped below freezing for the first time this year. This morning, while still quiet,…
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The General and the Particular
Aging man, by the stove, stirring oatmeal…
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Some Explanation
Since the unadorned state
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Short Story
The skinny, little,
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Dark Night
How fortunate, oh happy chance,
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If Not Now
Easy to reconcile
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Overlooked
Hard and mundane task complete.
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Auspiciousness
What if, by chance,
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Left Alone
Seems that, at the beginning,
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Reading
I now recall the appeal of some books with new insight.
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Opening Space
Although the ordinary events and scenes continue,
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Without Warning
First subfreezing morning with any depth;
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Strings in Space
End of a day
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Settling
Discursive thread comes to end.
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Autumn
The steep grade of the thruway
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Sitting
In the sitting meditation posture
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Character
Each pond, with its place in the woods,
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Dionne Warwick
When I begin to hear
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Simple Terminology
In many of my eras
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Space
The social structure –
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Instability
The assembly in one’s head
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Thrill
My first view in autumn
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A Way Out
When there’s much trouble,
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Types of Space
At home within
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Opportunity
8 AM to 5 PM, continuous, at times intense,
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Trump
Trump is like the bad guy I kept seeing on TV, over and over again, and from all the stories and Di…
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Though With a Hole In It
With early morning run through cool fall air,
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Fruition and Path
Again and again –
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Starting Over
I don't know anything!
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The Dump
Not having been for a while, my trip reminded me how I love the dump -- which includes wood, and me…
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Achievement and Satisfaction
The organic body and its continuity.
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The General and the Particular -- 2
Aging man, reclining, before trees and sky...
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Music
Getting into my truck for the short ride home,
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Coming Home
While traveling for longer than we've done before, I aimed to feel at home in those places we were.…
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Better Spaces
I see in old music now some of what advanced my development. Born to a poor, somber, messy home, so…
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This Is Sacred
Having become old,
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Gentleness
Years ago, with one of our vacations in Wellfleet, Barb and I had a small cabin at Drummer Cove, wi…
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Emptiness
What it means that we are empty -
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Linda Ronstadt
On the highway with our carpool to Northeastern University, I hear The Stone Ponies for the first t…
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Spring Flowers
Now I am old and have been
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The Whole Thing
Of course,
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A Potential Space
Twilight,
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What's Been Doing?
Starting out in life, I moved from the usual concerns and interests.
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Poetry
Long ago I recognized
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What Am I Doing?
The Opera appears to put down the center and layout of my life's Mandala. And with that, has come s…
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For My Pleasure
Eight AM, after heavy rain,
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Deb
Deb is an extraordinarily good person.
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