Posts tagged "valentine’s day"
A Buddhist Valentine
By S. Brent Plate
Love is not a shepherd's crook.
I am not the great shepherd
Reaching out to pull you in.
You cannot be my valentine.
I cannot possess love
We can only be possessed by it.
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Valentine's Day approaches and I am sitting in a room in a Buddhist monastery in the Hudson River Valley of New York. I've come to jump...


