Has My Son Got Chicken Pox

poems attributed to Rimpoche

build ever larger houses ...

and smaller families.

... We spend more but have less.

buy more ... but enjoy it less.

inhabit higher buildings ...

with shallow lives. We

for wider highways ...

with increasingly narrow minds.

We have more conveniences ... but we live

more uncomfortable. We have more knowledge

...

and less sense.

More experts ... and less solutions.

More medicine ... and less healthy.

are times of fast food ...

and slow digestion.

fantastic home ... with broken homes.

of angry immediately ... but forgive

slowly.
You leave early
...

and always arrive late.

We raise the banner of equality, but hold

prejudice. We

full agenda

phones that are never called.

shelves full of books I ever read. We spent

life, but do not know how to live.

We have more and more things,

and wasted most of them.