Temples and Tigers and buddhists and money
\nThe homogenisation is a cocktail of pain
\nIt can stem from the needs to enhance the ego
\nBut breaking the Third Precept clearly no gain
\nTo derive a pleasure from sentient beings
\nIs not the done thing though of course we all know
\nThere are many stories of wild animals responding
\nTo some human kindness and love which does grow
\nThailand and Laos and Myanmar are
\nNeighbouring countries with a doctrinal core
\nThus Theravada expresses their teachings
\nOf The Pali canon of its cultures and more
\nAlongside the teachings comes a different culture
\nBorders and great roads to riches galore
\nWhat became the Temple of Tigers in Thailand
\nHappened apparently in 1994<\/p>\n
A forest sanctuary for some wild tigers
\nIts kind of all secret bound on certain traits
\nAn ignorant mass to an arrogant leadership
\nWhat could be happening inside those gates
\nLittle or no policing apparently
\nSo many tigers and cubs brought to bear
\nIn just twenty years the temple was able
\nTo register trade routes the tigers to share<\/p>\n
Absoluteness and potentiality
\nPoaching and money inherent out there
\nNirvana and prana and being aware
\nPut into perspective
\nThe teachings are clear
\nA lucrative market of mayhem and more
\nIn fact breaking the precepts and teachings
\nExchanging the principles of blood and gore<\/p>\n
The offerings made to be taken and honoured
\nAll that was heart felt they could ignore
\nNot educate people to offer the truest
\nOf food not at all for to share in the core
\nOf ones being the whole damned religion was party
\nTo corruption and terror and involvement and more
\nIt is easy to see how the weak can be led
\nBy the arrogant leaders who clearly were sure<\/p>\n
Hoodwinking the volunteers brought into help them
\nSimilarly the tourist trade too
\nWalking with Tigers sitting on Tigers
\nDrugged up and toothless sadly that was true
\nTraditional medicine and the black market
\nIn body parts teeth skin and penises too
\nContracts with Laos tiger cubs frozen
\nWithin the compass what did they do<\/p>\n
Animal rights had been saying for years
\nSomething is happening and needs to be
\nIts been under the guise of the great Buddhist shadow
\nMuddle and chaos and disharmony
\nNow they have found jars of Tiger Cub remains
\nAnd frozen cubs too
\nClearly the temple was up to no good
\nAll the worst intentions all through<\/p>\n
The Tigers have gone the swoop it came quickly
\nWhere was the abbot seemingly gone
\nWhere were their consciences the racketeering
\nClearly unscrupulousness it was upon
\nUnethical dealings a den of villainy
\nMisdeeds and misdoing graceless and unclean
\nAnarchic and ungovernable the so called spirit
\nTheir day of reckoning it has to have been
\nBased on unrighteousness and degeneration
\nCorruption depravity all rolled in one
\nShamelessness where was the innocence truthfully
\nLots of lost souls when the day was done<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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