shakespeare's nembutu

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(numbered are the verses of sonnet 30, the lines in between are my

buddhist comment)

 

1. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

2. I summon up remembrance of things past,

 

sometimes i daydream and ponder about past emotions

 

3. I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,

4. And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:

 

full of regrets and filled with a sense of failure

 

5. Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,

6. For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,

 

burried in my memory are traumas that could pop up again

 

7. And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,

8. And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:

 

many dreams i had of becoming or achieving goals

 

9. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,

10. And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er

 

i tend to sink into despondency and dwell in it

 

11. The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,

12. Which I new pay as if not paid before.

 

remembered experiences can then become as vividly painful as they

were the first day

 

13. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,

14. All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.

 

but you sweet buddha presence,

my practice, my only support in life,

right all wrongs

and impose your eternal happiness