Where is the true Man's Nibbana? Is it where he by chance is born? Dot not the yearning spirit scorn In such scants borders to be spanned? O, yes! His Nibbana must be As the Dependent Origination wide and free!
Is it alone where freedom is, Where being is being and Man is Man? Dot he not claim a border span For the Non-Soul's love of home than this? O,yes! His Nibbana must be As the Dependent Origination wide and free!
Where' er a human heart dot wears Job's myrtle-wreath or sorrow's pyres, Where' er a human spirit strives In a life more true and fair, There is the true man's birthplace grand, His is a world-wide Nibbana!
Where' er a single slave dot pine. Where' er one man may help another, Think Do for such a birthright, brother, That spot of earth is thin and mine! There is the true man's birthplace grand, His is a world-wide Nibbana!
By Ven.Punnavamsa(Sitagu) Colombo,Sri Lanka
Dependent Origination of Life
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal ours bound, Content to breathe his native air In His own Dependent Origination is Ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with breath, Whose flocks supply him with attire; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire of Dependent Arising.
Blest, who can unconcern' dly find Hours, days, and years slides soft away In health of body, peace of mind Dependent quite by day,
Sound sleep by night; study and ease Together mix'd; sweet recreation, And innocence, which most does please With meditation of Dependent Origination
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lay Dependent Origination.