Thoughts Gliding
Thoughts come gliding
like gulls sailing
on the wind
Wide, silent wings
resting
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Animation
For the mind
to work
it must be
animated
You animate it
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Perfection
Coating all I do
in perfection
is a glaring
imperfection
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Fiction versus Non-Fiction
You experience fiction
and understand
with your heart
This breeds love
You accumulate non-fiction
and summarize
with your brain
This breeds AI
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The Enemy
Mind is not the enemy
Feeling helpless
in the face of it is
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Distance
No distance between
you and what you
perceive
is direct perception
is pure awareness
is subject and object
as one
And subject
is everything
And object
is everything
And nothing
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Revealing
I think it tells
us something
that “I” is
capitalized
Doesn’t it?
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Enlightened
When I look within
and see that I’m nothing
that is wisdom
And when I look without
and see that I’m everything
that is love
And between these two
my life turns
—Nisargadatta
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Descartes Redux
I am—
Therefore I am
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Wise Words
Mind creates
the abyss
The heart
crosses it
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Storyteller
Who spins the yarn?
Who lives the equal sign?
Who associates all things?
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Promise
Why can I not
let go this body?
Because I have
promised no to
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Leave Be
Leave be means
transcend
(every need
and urge to)
change
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Aladdin’s Task
Ego is the lamp
Stillness is the
poor Genie
He must let it out
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Outdoing
I am going to
out-think thought
out-ego ego
and out-self self
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Anapanasati
Anapanasati
cleans and polishes
my micro-tele-scope
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Solutions
I solved noise
by going deaf
I solved eyesores
by going blind
I solved life
by dying
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Care Bear Stare
Where
Share
Fair
Flair
Sphere
Care
Bear
Stare
Snare
Fare
Clair
Hair
Lair
Bare
Beware
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Fading
Air—Ease
Fade—Know
The more
Fade fades
the more
Know knows
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Punctuation
All these rules
All these
punctuation rules
I don’t know
whether I’m
comma or going
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Knowing
I will not know
by remembering
I will know
by knowing
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The Sub-Atomic
Surely
subatomic particles
are simply
Emptiness thinking
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Samsara
Things are
what they are
because that is
exactly how
they like to be
Form is Emptiness
Emptiness is Form
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Not There
The physical
is just as
not there
as the mental
as delusion
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Vicious Hologram
Best left alone
No matter how much
it glitters
we must let go
Indra’s jeweled net
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Leaving Be
Naturally
leaving all things be
would include
leaving all things be
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Clay
Past and future
are the clay
the ego uses
to mold
its image
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One Small Step
The step from
sycophant
to assassin is
normally
miniscule
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Going Home
I look up into the night sky
and I am seized by one
single, overwhelming wish:
I want to go home
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Clouding and Stoning
Everything is a verb—
Clouds are clouding
Stones are stoning
Stars are staring
and night is nighting
In constant motion
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One or the Other
These days—
at my age
Life is not so bad
or—
I’ve gotten
used to it
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More Godly than Dad
I believe that
offspring
Jesus Christ
was/is far more
godly than Dad
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Zero Sum Game
Ultimate Edition
And we asked God:
“What do we eat?”
And He said unto us:
“Each other.”
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Verbing It
Everything is
a verb
A constant
forever verb
as-ising it
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A Stellar Waste
Only an infinitesimal
part of the Sun’s rays
actually find the Earth
What a waste
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Artificial Intelligence
AI is just dumb
high frequency
manipulation
of human input
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Ego
Ego is life force
percolating through
layers and layers
of lies
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Awakening
It’s not about
letting Atman out
It’s about
letting Brahman in
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Jhanic Absorption
Absorption means
to not be doing
anything else
anywhere else
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Egoic Self
The egoic self
is life force
rising and
filtered and
conditioned
by many
many
false layers
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What To Do
As for enlightened
I will know
what to do
to help
when I get there
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Divine Courtesy
The Bodhisattva
conundrum:
After you
No after you
No aft…
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Underlining
Why do we underline
what we deem important
rather than know it
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Later
The I’ll-do-it-later
conundrum—
There is no later
only now
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Strong versus Weak
At my age
the opposite of strong
is not weak
it is depleted
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Sizes
Galaxies seem big
when we see
ourselves as small
Atoms seem small
when we see
ourselves a big
It’s all a matter
of perspective
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The Purposes of Ego
In Life and In Death
In life
ego serves
one master—
Survival
of the organism
In death
ego serves
another master—
Survival
of the viewpoint
Seeing this in full
is known as egocide
the end of misery
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So Obvious
So blatantly
obvious:
You cannot think
your way out
of thinking
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Brahman at War
This Unnecessary Conflict
Rejecting what is
Resisting reality
At war with yourself
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Samsara
Things are
what they are
because that is
exactly how
they want to be
Form is Emptiness
Emptiness is Form
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Aging
The Big One is
coming up the drive
You mean Eighty?
No, I mean Death
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Good Word
Another good word
for emptiness
is pre-universe
potential
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Self-Delusion
Loving bad opera is like
loving good Campari
there is some
self-deluding involved
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Jhanic Absorption
Be it Air or Nimitta…
Jhanic absorption
is more like
Total dedication
than absorbed
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Mind versus Spirit
So different…
The mind is all about
agreement
and alignment—
The spirit knows
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Equations
Viewpoint + Mind
= Ego
No Body + No Mind
+ No Viewpoint
= Nirvana
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Discovery
And so, I discover
my innate tendency
to place things
on automatic
And by the way
Isn’t that what
we all are doing
with the Universe
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Once Upon a Time
Brahman fragmented
into a trillion viewpoints
Then forgot them all
This is what all Atman(s)
are now ardently
trying to remember
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Story Length
A tale is as long
as engagingly told
Not longer
Not shorter
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Hongzhi
Be empty
and desireless
cold and thin
Simple
and genuine
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God’s Fed Up
I am going to
revoke sex
said God
But then the
species will
die out
cried we
Big loss
said God
Yet, for a little while
until extinction
mankind was
at peace, happy
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Intermittent Pleasure
I bump my head
against a rock
because I love it so
when I stop
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This I Promise
The lazy thunder of lies
I swear I will never
hear that man’s
voice again
Liver, kidneys and
heart agree
that would be
a peaceful world
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At Ease
Easing is a matter of
opening every hand
you can find
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Soul Advice
You are not solid
You are not confined
Leave your
empty head behind
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Jhanic Absorption
Absorption
means not doing
anything else
anywhere
anywhen
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Barrier
We have no
greater barrier
than our
conviction
that we cannot
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Conundra
She: He’s one of those
people who says
condunra instead
of conundrums
He: Who says conundrums
and what are they?
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Anapanasati
No thing is
more important
than the air
on my nostrils
in and out
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Agreement versus Truth
Agreement can create
relative truth
but never
ultimate truth
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Ease
Ease means
open every hand
from the tiniest
to the largest
whether atom
or galaxy
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Thoughts
Every thought
remembers
confirms
or projects
a state of being
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To Die Before Death
I strive to die
before I die
that I may then
at last
truly live
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Think Bait
Alluring thoughts arise
They whisper:
engage
engage
engage
engage
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