Nourishing Bodhisattva Practice
what to do with your goat in a drowning world hear the helicopters come over the roof water's up to my attic windows and I'm stuck here with my goat I can see my neighbor in the hole on his roof he's got two dachsies and a tomcat just across the rushing river is his sister she's cradling her baby and a rooster circling helicopters circling helicopters will take me but not my goat will lift me up from muck and flood but they won't take my neighbor's dogs or cat or his sister's baby's rooster helicopters overhead nation to the rescue take the people damn their friends I'm not going without my goat he's not going without his pets baby won't leave without her rooster lord oh lord why don't we have an ark that's the helicopters leaving that's the nation to the rescue leaving us here in the dark - Andrei Codrescu Buddhists are called by compassion to alleviate suffering in the world. While there are innumerable forms this p...