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SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the Infanite Void gave a discourse to all the assembled elements and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings, the flying beings, and the sitting beings - even the grasses, to the number of thirteen billion, each one born from a seed, assembled there: a Discourse concerning ...

A Poem by Gary Snyder By Robert Hass September 6, 1998 Labor Day weekend. The heroic period of the American labor movement seems a long way off as the sports utility vehicles inch toward the beaches in the holiday traffic. So here's a reminder from Gary Snyder's Myths & Texts, one of the landmarks of the Beat Generation. The sequence of poems deals with Snyder's time working in logging camps and ...