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2012 Buddha Root Farm Retreat Snapshots
8/12/2012 ~ 8/17/2012

Snapshots of 2012 Buddha Root Farm retreat from Berkeley Buddhist Monastery on Vimeo.

David Rounds wrote and shared the following poem at the end of the retreat

Remembering Turtle Mountain, August 2012
(With apologies to William Wordsworth)


O sylvan stream

How often have our thoughts returned to you

When the fever of the world has closed in upon us

How often have our spirits turned to you!


 
We bounded like the deer over the mountains

The sounding waterfall haunted us

For nature to us was all in all

And brought us to that blessed mood

In which the burden of the mystery

Of all this unintelligible world was lightened.




For me the hour has passed

When I looked with the eyes of youth

Now in nature I always hear

The still sad music of humanity

But I also feel a presence that disturbs me 

With the joy of elevated thoughts

A sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns

And the round ocean 

And the living air

A motion and a stillness that impel all thought

That roll through the minds of sentient beings

That sustain the Dharma Realm.




We elders see in you, young friends, what once we were

When we too strode like elk over the meadows

And in you we hear the language of our former thoughts

And see our fire that burns in your wild eyes

For nature never did betray the hearts that loved her




Therefore, all who've gathered here on Turtle Mountain

If ever pain or grief or solitude should be your portion

Then with healing thoughts of Dharma joy

May you recall this day.




Now may the moon shine upon us

May the misty mountain winds blow against us

And may our memories be a dwelling place

For sweet sounds and harmonies

And we will not forget

That on the banks of this fair river

We lived the Dharma together.

Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, 2304 McKinley Ave, Berkeley, CA 94703
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