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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