Ordained Celtic Buddhist Priests

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Eido Boru passed away August 26, 2022

BUDDHA Monk Song

(a monkpunk tale)

By Sir Eido Boru OCBM

a Celtic Buddhist Bard

Some people would like their life to be calmer

like it says in the Buddha’s Dharma

no robbing homes or car steals

ban coward punches and drug deals

Bodhidharma sat for years in a cave

then gave lessons on how to behave

practicing precepts, ethics and morals

is the best way to rest on your laurels

We should work hard to pay the rent

and our taxes to the government

shop wisely for the healthiest food

eating well will keep you in a good mood

Make sure the kids go off to school

this will stop them being ignorant fools

those who learn reading, writing and arithmetic

won’t have to work with a shovel and pick

Honor  your mother and your father too

love your sisters and brothers please do

help the old folks from across the road

do no harm is the best code

Follow your breath in meditation

this will assist in your preparation

to make your life a whole lot calmer

like it says in the Buddha’s Dharma.

*This can be sung be sung as a song.

Best Behavior Blues

by Lugh

I was told

to stay at home

the busy streets

I shouldn’t roam

Said to my friend

You gotta bugger off

You got a cold

and a cough

Washing my hands

in soap and water

20 times a day

because I oughta

Off to the supermarket

dashing down the aisles

filling the trolley

with piles and piles

Alone in the garden

reading book after book

damn dogs barking

damn noisy chooks

Watching the News

on the TV

disaster after disaster

is told to me

Government’s giving money

they’re not being mean

so labs can find

an antivirus vaccine

Tears in my eyes

as I view the statistics

thank you China

the world’s going ballistic.

WE COME WE GO
(a monkpunk tale)
By Sir Eido Boru
a Celtic Buddhist Bard

Conditions were right
BIGBANGTHEORY
dark dust sunlight
Earth looks dreary
asteroids smash
comets crash
perhaps the cause
of extinct dinosaurs
birds on the wing
hear them sing
treeclans
orangutans
multiman
black white tan
the historic flood
lots of mud
comes Gautama
his dharma
precepts and karma
DONOHARMA
soto zen
deep meditation
Chogyam Trungpa
celtic lamas
the abrahamics
so calamic
many many wars
lots of gore
much manic
pure panic
mass lunacy
romantic fantasy
music 'n' art
horse 'n' cart
steam trains
aeroplanes
man on the moon
spacejunk strewn
satellites
into the starlight
conditions now bad
gone crazy mad
WORLDWARFOUR
we are no more

COULDA

(a monkpunk tale)

By Sir Eido Boru

It never happened

but it coulda been fun

if Syd Vicious* met

Buddha the Enlightened One

Syd coulda screamed

An obscene song

Buddha coulda talked

About right and wrong

Syd  coulda yelled

About blood and hate

Buddha coulda told

what’s  good and what’s great

Syd  coulda ranted

About bullocks and junk

If they sat together

You coulda got Monkpunk*

*Syd Vicious was a member of the UK band “The Sex Pistols”

*Monkpunk is an irreverent verse which can be rude, crude and ungrammatical

LIKE MANY OF YOU

(a monkpunk tale)

By Sir Eido Boru, a Celtic Buddhist Bard

So you still skirl

the ancient bagpipes

but wear designer kilts

with green stripes

So you sing

“Oh Danny Boy”

with tear filled eyes

and much sad joy.

So you drink a bottle of

the Tullamore Dew

and many pints of

the Guiness brew

So you grow prata*

all over the place

and cabaiste* too

for added taste

So you have marshy bogs

but there’s little heather

to cross these quagmires

is a great endeavour

So you have read

James Joyce and Oscar Wilde

their tales are famous

with such excellent style

So these literary genii

they aren’t Scottish

like many of you

they are Celtic Irish

*potatoes

*cabbage

Like Many of You (Part 2)

By Sir Eido Boru, A Celtic Buddhist Bard)

So the Book of Armagh

of ancient fey

the first to mention

St. Patrick’s Day.

So William Butler Yeats

the rebels’ poetic choice

daytime Ulysses

the genius James Joyce.

So the great Bram Stoker

bloody dark Dracula

brilliant Oscar Wilde

Dorian Grey psycho drama.

So the Anam Cara

of John Donohue

his unique poems

Connamara Blues.

So these literary genii

they aren’t Scottish

like many of you

they are Celtic Irish.

Now Time

(a monk punk tale)

by Sir Eido Boru OCBM - a Celtic Buddhist Bard

Now I live in

an inner-city park

listening to the crows

crying f a r k

Now grass and trees

flowers bugs and ants

secret night creatures

that sing and dance

Now sun and wind

moon and stars

refreshing rain

horn honking cars

Now sometimes cold

sometimes very hot

it matters little

it’s my chosen lot

Now curios folk

stop and stare

a few want to talk

showing they care

Now some give me

their yesterday’s food

a generous blessing

to eat in solitude

Now canned baked beans

after dawn meditation

plus stale bread crusts

cause aberration

Now given a thrashing

early one night

black eyes broken teeth

are a delightful sight

Now crossing my legs

in deep meditation

watching my breath

for true realisation

Now caer witrin

emerald grove

Celtic buddhism

tales behold

Now the black crows

offering their wisdom

and my dharma thoughts

zendruidism