What Is I?
I is a bit of
patchwork—
of a trillion
trillion
memories
The common
denominator
among all of them
is the I-view
Cut the I-view off
at the source
and all those
memories
will vanish
What remains
is truly You
One clause in
the I-view contract
read “You mush record
every now.”
As an honest
law-abiding I-view
like a fool you
signed and did
Much to your
chagrin when you
discovered that
you could not
turn it off
::
Expansion
How to swell
beyond the I-skin
How to fill
the room with
happiness
::
Futility
To out-think thinking
is more or less
like trying to
outrun running
::
Reading Vedanta
Reading Vedanta
is more like
reminiscing
than anything else
and
I seem to prefer
reminiscing
before letting go—
very strange
Gotta change that
::
Us Midwives
Fetal thoughts
remain unborn
unless we reach
for them
to give them birth
::
Advaita Quandary
Am I ready
to let me go?
Oh, I don’t know
I’m pretty
precious
::
Death Wish
I wish I did not
have to breathe
I wish I could just
sit in stillness
::
The Real Skill
The skill is seeing
through
the idea of it
to the thing itself
::
Philosophers
All true philosophers
are not only “we”
but “I” with each other
::
Selves
The little self
has a thousand
seams and stitches
The Big Self
has none
::
Sacred Syllables
Ease to Still
Aware to Am
Seven sacred
syllables
to guide me
::
The Pacific
The Pacific Ocean?
Oh, yes, indeed
it does go on
for a bit
::
This Old Body
Me to God:
You can have it
God to me:
Don’t want it now
—all used up
Oh, well—
Guess I’m
stuck with it
::
History of self
I did not decide “I”
ages ago—
I do every moment
::
Shadows
A shadow cast
by a feather
is as dark as that
cast by a knife
::
Sun and Moon
He looked at the sun
and said
You know, that moon
is really, really bright
::
Discovery
I just discovered:
Dogs cannot shit
and bark
simultaneously
::
Vichara
Who am I?
To whom this, that?
Self-aware
Discerning selves
to stillness
::
Purgatory
Just being in stillness
strikes me as a
clear, joyous purgatory
::
Private Maya
The mind is like
a private Maya
helping the Self
Illusionize
As would an
auxiliary engine
or a
servo-mechanism
::
Word Play
An interesting
question:
What is the
quiddity
of a pound
sterling?
::
Sprung a Leak
This morning
my mind
sprung a leak
and some lovely
sentences
escaped
::
Questions
“Who am I?”
A more revelatory
question might be:
“What is I?”
::
Silver Lining
Worst silver lining
ever:
struck by an
empty, speeding
ambulance
::
Auto Dissonance
A Miata with
disabled
license plates:
cognitive
dissonance
For it takes a
circus quality
contortionist
to get into
::
The Egoic I
The I is a thick lens
a filter, a tiny
constricting glass tube
a binding constriction
we voluntarily
squeezed ourselves
into
that we should enjoy
our little selfdoms
::
Spiders
So, Miss Spider
kills Mr. Spider
after lovemaking
—These Women!!
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Existence
Original lie:
You do not exist
Original truth:
You do
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