[MD] Smokey Bear Sutra

[MarshaV]

John,

This sutra is so good that I've been chanting for the last 30 minutes.


Love,
    Marsha








At 01:15 PM 6/17/2009, you wrote:
>SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRABY GARY SNYDER
>
>Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in
>this corner of the Infinite Void gave a discourse to all the assembled
>elements and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings, the
>flying beings, and the sitting beings--even the grasses, to the number of
>thirteen billion, each one born from a seed, assembled there: a Discourse
>concerning Enlightenment on the planet Earth.
>
>"In some future time, there will be a continent called America. It will have
>great centers of power called such as Pyramid Lake, Walden Pond, Mt.
>Rainier, Big Sur, Everglades, and so forth; and powerful nerves and channels
>such as Columbia River, Mississippi River, and Grand Canyon. The human race
>in that era will get into troubles all over its head, and practically wreck
>everything in spite of its own strong intelligent Buddha-nature."
>
>"The twisting strata of the great mountains and the pulsings of volcanoes
>are my love burning deep in the earth. My obstinate compassion is schist and
>basalt and granite, to be mountains, to bring down the rain. In that future
>American Era I shall enter a new form; to cure the world of loveless
>knowledge that seeks with blind hunger: and mindless rage eating food that
>will not fill it."
>
>And he showed himself in his true form of
>SMOKEY THE BEAR
>
>A handsome smokey-colored brown bear standing on his hind legs, showing that
>he is aroused and watchful.
>
>Bearing in his right paw the Shovel that digs to the truth beneath
>appearances; cuts the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on
>the fires of greed and war;
>
>His left paw in the mudra of Comradely Display--indicating that all
>creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that of deer,
>rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of
>the Dharma;
>
>Wearing the blue work overalls symbolic of slaves and laborers, the
>countless men oppressed by a civilization that claims to save but often
>destroys;
>
>Wearing the broad-brimmed hat of the west, symbolic of the forces that guard
>the wilderness, which is the Natural State of the Dharma and the true path
>of man on Earth:
>
>*all true paths lead through mountains*--
>
>With a halo of smoke and flame behind, the forest fires of the kali-yuga,
>fires caused by the stupidity of those who think things can be gained and
>lost whereas in truth all is contained vast and free in the Blue Sky and
>Green Earth of One Mind;
>
>Round-bellied to show his kind nature and that the great earth has food
>enough for everyone who loves her and trusts her;
>
>Trampling underfoot wasteful freeways and needless suburbs, smashing the
>worms of capitalism and totalitarianism;
>
>Indicating the task: his followers, becoming free of cars, houses, canned
>foods, universities, and shoes, master the Three Mysteries of their own
>Body, Speech, and Mind; and fearlessly chop down the rotten trees and prune
>out the sick limbs of this country America and then burn the leftover trash.
>
>Wrathful but calm. Austere but Comic. Smokey the Bear will Illuminate those
>who would help him; but for those who would hinder or slander him...
>HE WILL PUT THEM OUT.
>
>Thus his great Mantra:
>
>*Namah samanta vajranam chanda maharoshana Sphataya hum traka ham mam*
>
>*"I DEDICATE MYSELF TO THE UNIVERSAL DIAMOND BE THIS RAGING FURY BE
>DESTROYED"*
>
>And he will protect those who love the woods and rivers, Gods and animals,
>hobos and madmen, prisoners and sick people, musicians, playful women, and
>hopeful children:
>
>And if anyone is threatened by advertising, air pollution, television, or
>the police, they should chant *SMOKEY THE BEAR'S WAR SPELL:*
>DROWN THEIR BUTTSCRUSH THEIR BUTTSDROWN THEIR BUTTSCRUSH THEIR BUTTS
>
>And SMOKEY THE BEAR will surely appear to put the enemy out with his
>vajra-shovel.
>
>Now those who recite this Sutra and then try to put it in practice will
>accumulate merit as countless as the sands of Arizona and Nevada.
>
>Will help save the planet Earth from total oil slick.
>Will enter the age of harmony of man and nature.
>Will win the tender love and caresses of men, women, and beasts.
>Will always have ripened blackberries to eat and a sunny spot under a pine
>tree to sit at.
>
>AND IN THE END WILL WIN HIGHEST PERFECT ENLIGHTENMENT
>
>...thus we have heard...
>
>--
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