On The Fire Suicides Of The Buddhists Poem by Charles Bukowski

On The Fire Suicides Of The Buddhists

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'They only burn themselves to reach Paradise'
- Mne. Nhu

original courage is good,
motivation be damned,
and if you say they are trained
to feel no pain,
are they
guarenteed this?
is it still not possible
to die for somebody else?

you sophisticates
who lay back and
make statements of explanation,
I have seen the red rose burning
and this means more.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: suicide
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dr Antony Theodore 05 April 2020

original courage is good, motivation be damned, and if you say they are trained to feel no pain, are they guarenteed this? is it still not possible to die for somebody else? To reach paradise, they burn themselves. Religion when it goes to abnormal ways. tony

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Dr Antony Theodore 10 October 2019

you sophisticates who lay back and make statements of explanation, I have seen the red rose burning and this means more.... a very fine poem. tony

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Michael Walker 27 July 2019

Profound thoughts in a short poem. He endorses the Buddhist monks who burned themselves to death.

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* Sunprincess * 23 April 2016

.............interesting and so sad ★

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