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Gary Snyder
Control Burn
to burn out the brush every year.
In the woods, up the gorges,
keeping the oak and the pine stands
and kitkitdizze under them,
(a fine bush in its right)
crowds up under the new trees
mixed up with logging slash
and a fire can wipe out all.
with a sense of helpful order,
(manzanita seeds will only open
or once passed through a bear)
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when it belonged to the Indians
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The Way West, Underground
Black Bear heads uphill in
round bottom scuttling through willows -
The Bear Wife moves up the toast.
where blackberry brambles
And around the curve of islands
on, to North Japan. The bears
& fish-spears of the Ainu.
Women with drums who fly over Tibet.
Following forests west, and
rolling, following grassland,
tracking bears and mushrooms,
eating berries all the way.
In Finland finally took a bath:
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like redwood sweatlodge on the Klamath
all the Finns in moccassins and
pointy hats with dots of white,
netting, trapping, bathing,
singing holding hands, the white
see-sawing on a bench, a look of love -
Karhu - Bjorn - Braun - Bear
[lightning rainbow great cloud tree
or elder wilder goddesses reborn - will race
the streets of France and Spain
Red Hands with missing fingers,
© Gary Snyder, 1971.
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Smokey the Bear Sutra
Once in the Jurassic, about 150 million years ago,
the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the Infinite
Void gave a great Discourse to all the assembled elements
and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings,
the flying beings, and the sitting beings - even grasses,
to the number of thirteen billion, each one bom from a
seed, were 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 nerven 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 great 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 America 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.
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Bearing in his right paw the Shovel that digs to the
truth beneath appearances; cuts the roots of useless attach-
ments, 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 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 only 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
Round-bellied to show his kind nature and that the great
earth has food enough for everyone who loves her and trusts
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 foot, 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
Wrathful but Calm, Austere but Comic, Smokey the Bear will
Illuminate those who would help him; but for those who would
he will put them out.
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Namah samanta vajranam chanda maharoshana
Sphataya hum traka ham mam
‘i dedicate myself to the universal diamond
be this raging fury destroyed’
And he will protect those who love 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,
or the police, they should chant smokey the bear's war
And smokey the bear will surely appear to put the enemy
Now those who recite this Sutra and then try to put it in
practise will accumulate merit as countless as the sands
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
Will always have ripe blackberries to eat and a sunny spot
under a pine tree to sit at,
and in the end will win highest perfect
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