Word/Letter Play

Breathe minus rathe
  is Be
Be plus rathe
  is Breathe
So be it
  It be so

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Memory and Age

Can memory
  worsen with age
if the brain is not
  involved? No way

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AI and Humans

A computer program
  is a set of human
given instructions

AI lives and dies
  with or without them

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Two-Way Street
  Not Necessarily

Just because
 you leave
when the body dies
  does not mean
the body dies
  when you leave

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Dataism

The myth
that quantity
can make up
  for quality

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Maya

Maya is the
  creative arm
of the absolute
  —of Sunyata

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Zazen Gate Revisited

Let eons fade
  Let mountains fade
Let language fade
  Let hopes
and dreams fade

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Reconciling

My reading
  and reflecting
is reconciling
  the reconcilers

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Cannibalism

Man is a very
  greedy species
So greedy it
  will self-consume

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Zazen Signposts

I have chosen
  simple words
neither inducing
  nor inviting
  streams

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Zazen Gate

Let eons fade
  Let mountains fade
Let language fade
  Let then softly fade

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Zazen Gate

I am constructing
  my Zazen gate
with simple
  self-destructing
words

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Wordplay

Unbelivable is but
  one small “e” shy of
unbelievable

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Zazen

Truth is drowned
  in words
is fettered
  in language
Set free
  in Zazen

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Lifemother

In Swedish, the uterus
  is called lifemother
  (livmoder)
What a perfect word !!

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Just Sit

Let eons fade
Let mountains fade
At ease, at peace
Relax Completely

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Clouds

I becloud my sky
  with quagmire thoughts
then wade right in
  to feed them

I becloud my sky
  with word after word
then rhyme a few
  to breed them

I becloud my sky
  with hatred and love
then yearn at times
  to feel them

I becloud my sky
  with kidneys and knees
and lungs and heart
  to heal them

I becloud my sky
  with wishes and dreams
and prayer to
  for real them

I becloud my sky
  with cell after cell
that now I shed
  to free them

I becloud my sky
  with unbeclouding
cloudless at last
  I see them

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Wrong Words

In peaceful meditation
  even the finest word
is the wrong word

In peaceful meditation
  any word
  any word
is the wrong word

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Heaven vs. Hell

In our religions
  the descriptions
  of Hell outnumber
the descriptions
  of Heaven
at least ten to one

This ratio reveals
  a dark human heart
and her infantile
  scare tactics

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My Religion

Not quite
  a pure Buddhist
Nor a pure Vedantist
Perhaps a Bodhist

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Borders

My boundary of
  separation
where, precisely
  is it engraved?

How deep runs
  my egoic mind?

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Path and Ethics

As for my
  blue water path
even the smallest
  deviational leak
is a faint betrayal

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Clouds Racing

Clouds racing
  for open water
through their
  final coda
  of turmoil

Abandoning
  this shoreline
to distant and
  oh, so long
  ago stars

Into tranquil

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Happiness

Your happiness
  is intrinsic
Your unhappiness
  an overcoat

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Endless Sky

Endless sky—
no end in space
no end in time
so neither
  space nor time

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Neither
  Cause nor Effect

Walking a path
  is cause
Reaching a state
  is effect
Just sit neither

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Word Play

Consider:
  Lemons the size
of grapefruits
  Grapefruit the size
  of melons

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Becoming Song

What do I do
  to become song
to, like song
  vanish into ether

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Little Bitch

At times
  say when it comes
  to certain foods
I find myself
  my body’s
  little bitch

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Back Home

To find your way
  back home
you must first
  realize two things:

One—that there is
  a home to find  your way back to
Two—that you are
  indeed lost

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I am

“I am” does not
  specify what you are
it clarifies
  that you are

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Neither
  Cause nor Effect

Neither pleasant effect
  nor pleasant cause
yields at ease
  at peace aware

Only at ease
  at peace aware
will blossom
  at ease at peace
  aware

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Unlike In Water

Matter does not
  replace the space
  it occupies
Space permeates it

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Breathing

At times I wish
  I did not
  have to breathe
when air tears
  my peace apart

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English

At times
  I am wordless—
the entire
  English language
  forgotten

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Too Few Words

There are more
  things than words
So some words
  have to shoulder
multiple duties

Some as many
  as dozens

Still, the most
  important meanings
are yours and mine

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War

Does mankind war
  from lack of purpose?
Must life be threatened
  to gain meaning?

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Plans

My future plans
  are more like
  sketches
than blueprints
Fate laughs
  at detail

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Thoughtberg

What I say to you
  is, in the end
only the tip
  of the thoughtberg

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Relation/Ownership

The body is not me
The body is not mine

I am but the renter
  leaseholder
  caretaker
whatever the word

I live it in trust

It belongs to Ishvara

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Slave Auctions
  aka Transfer Windows

It’s true—
  in professional sports
  they buy and they sell
Human Beings

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On Sex (Revised)
  It is not Heaven

Sex is its own
  brilliantly
  conceived
  designed
  implemented
Sweet Hell

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On Sex
  It is not Heaven

Sex is its own
  brilliantly
  conceived
  designed
and executed Hell

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Being

I am — not body
I am — not mind
I am — not viewpoint
I am — all

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Happiness

Happiness
  is intrinsic
Unhappiness
  a self-donned
  overcoat

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Inclusive

Awakening is
  not exclusive
it is utterly
  inclusive

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Paradox

The greatest paradox:
  You are not your body
  You are all bodies

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Perfect Teeth

Really scary:
  An octogenarian
with Hollywood teeth

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Samsara

At some point
  I bought into this
Now I’m busy
  buying my way out

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Inventions

I still maintain:
Mankind’s greatest
  invention ever:
Toilet paper

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Mayflies

Thoughts are
  like mayflies
but also like
  the mayfly lure
best to not bite

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Mayflies

Why do thoughts
  even bother?
They are like mayflies
  gone so soon
  so soon

They appear
  out of nowhere
  hum a wee while
return into nowhere

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Here and Now

Here and now there is no darkness
Here and now there is but will
Here and now there is no earth
no star, no sky, and all is still

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These Many Words

I read and learn
  and reconcile
these many words

I meld and blend
 and shape
  their meanings

into edifice
into landscape
into maps and
  stairways

that never hold
  my weight
or reach
  my dream

while silence does

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In Samadhi

In Samadhi
  there is nothing
  to reconcile
It’s a mind time-out

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Enough

I have read enough
I have reconciled enough
It is time to just sit
It is time to just breathe
It is time to just be

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Sentient Space

I stir neither water
  nor leaf
I am sentient space
  untroubled sky

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Falling Through to Am

“I am” is the final
  illusion we
fall through
  into Brahman:
“Am”

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Stillnesses

The stillness
  inside me
and the stillness
  inside you—
The same stillness

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Feeling Ill Done By?

Remember:
  Seven thousand
  African children
starve to death
  —daily

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Memories

Memories are not
  stored as senses
The mind interprets
  them as such

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Brahman’s Voice

Sri Nisargadatta
  so beautifully
gave Brahman
  a clear voice

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Falling Through

Ultimately, we all
  fall through
  “I am” into “Am”
into Brahman

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Mindless

The only way
  to sever this mind
is to yield this view
  good and true

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Mea Very Culpa

A Nisargadatta
  wake-up call:
“Ony the ignorant
  love words.”

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A Useful Word

A problem with
  the mind
  is not mental
It is a mindal
  problem

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A Quandary

As for this
  physical body—
What deal have
  I struck here
and with whom?

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Primary Illusion

The primary illusion
  is also the final
gate to dissolve:
  “I am”

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Brahman’s Voice

In Sri Nisargadatta
  Brahman
so beautifully
  found a voice

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True Words

Those who chase
  pleasures
are insufficiently
  disillusioned
  with them

—Tsongkhapa

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An Absurdity

You know
  a country
is not hurting
  when it has to
advertise food

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Struggle

It is our struggle
  to get out
that energizes
  the prison bars

But when in truth
  there is neither
  in nor out
What’s the point
  of struggle?

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Note to Self

Utmost crucial note
  to Ultimate Self:
Atman is unstainable

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A Good Question

At times I ask myself:
  why on Earth
  this planet?
Then I say: Why not?

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Krishna Said

Thus Krishna
  once told us:
The three gates
  to hell are
lust, anger
  and greed

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What is True

Ancient may not be true
Sacred may not be true
Only Truth is true

Age does not verify
Faith does not guarantee
Only Truth is true

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Porn vs. Erotica

Pornographic
  and erotic
  are two very, very
different things

Porno is sex
  mechanics up close
while Eros sings
  of deep, dark love

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Dimension

Stillness has
  no dimension
Neither does
  Awareness
One and the same

Absolute stillness
  is particle free
and absolutely
  aware

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Reading Shankara

Oh, that I had read him
  with my life before
rather than behind me

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My Beautiful Pacific
  Morning Greeting

My ocean always
  waves at me
and I just as always
  wave right back

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Polyglot

The other day
  I realized
that Vishnu is
  fluent in Buddhist

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Human Condition

Language is the
  Human Condition:
The Detailed
  History of Man

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Awakening

It is not Atman
  being Brahman
It is Brahman
  shedding Atman

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Our Senses

Without our senses
  we have no idea
how anything
  if there is anything
truly appears

Our senses are
  the black box
of utter mystery
  if not misery
The sleight of hand
  to end all
sleights of hand

Gotama
  called them Mara
Shankara
 called them Maya
This Wolf
  calls them Prison

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My Body

It’s a very realistic
  chess piece
It even hurts to
  lose one

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Doorways and Lies

The doorway into
  this universe
for us is called
  the five senses

Know that
  every word
these senses utter
  is nothing
but a lie

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American Americans
  Their True Colors

Them whites—
  Europe fleeing
  Americans

Then blacks—
  Against their will
  Americans

Them browns—
  Saving our skin
  Americans

Them golds—
  Enterprising
  Americans

Them bronze—
  American
  Americans

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Our Senses

Our senses are
  the magical boat
that keeps our
  universe afloat

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