The Noble Eightfold Path

This is the middle way, this is the eightfold path

This is the way to the end of suffering.

Right view

Right view is the forerunner of the entire path.

Right view provides the right practice.

Right view leads to a virtuous life.

Right view comes at the end of the path.

Right view requires you to know

that the dying always look up to the sky

and therefore get ready to shell hospitals.

Right intention

Birth is suffering, aging is suffering,

Sickness is suffering, death is suffering,

Sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief

and despair are suffering,

Association with the unpleasant is suffering,

Separation from the pleasant is suffering,

Not to get what one wants is suffering.

For the instant cessation of their suffering

Right intention requires the carpet bombing

Of the fleeing masses.

Right speech

Right speech is about the absence of wrong speech.

Abstain from falsehood, abstain from slander,

Abstain from harsh speech, abstain from idle chatter.

Speech can break lives and start wars,

so it is best to pull out of the peace talks.

Right action

Right action means refraining from unwholesome deeds

that occur with the body as their main means

of expression. Do not take life,

Do not take what is not given,

Do not indulge in sexual misconduct.

The celibate Buddha and his monks

never spilled any semen and it is our bounden duty

to make up for that by raping every woman in sight.

Right livelihood

The Buddha mentions five kinds of livelihood

which bring harm to others that must be avoided.

The first tells one to avoid dealing in weapons

so please get India and China to gift those toys.

Right effort

Right effort requires a wholesome form of energy.

Dispelling dullness calls for a special effort

to arouse energy through the visualization

of a brilliant ball of light or reflection on death.

For desire, a remedy of general application

is meditation on impermanence to knock away

the underlying property of clinging.

To get rid of dullness let light into the lives

of your enemies through luminous bombs

and to get rid of their desire for one another

bulldoze their bunkers and this will be the last time

they cling to each other.

Right mindfulness

The first step in right mindfulness involves

the contemplation of the body and the last step

in the mindfulness of the body involves a series

of cemetery meditations which necessitates dreaming

of death and decomposition of the human body.

Meditate on the mass graves in Mullivaaikaal and Chemmani.

Right concentration

Right concentration implies seclusion

from sensual pleasures and reining in the unruly mind.

Right concentration is achieved through training

so work hard to estimate the exact amount of napalm

Or white phosphorous for sky-showers

To grant nirvana to the Tamil people,

For blessed are they who get to breathe

The Laughing Buddha's Laughing Gas.

~ Meena Kandasamy ~

About Author

Meena Kandasamy is an acclaimed poet, fiction writer, and translator based in Chennai, India. Her second poetry collection, Ms. Militancy, will be published later this year, alongside a selection of poems on the Genocide in Tamil Eelam, 'Waking is Another Dream'. Both the books will be published by Navayana (New Delhi).

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