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Suggested Russell
It doesn’t matter
what you believe
so long as you
don’t believe it
completely
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My Daily Dance
By days are not
so much well planned
as exquisitely
choreographed
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Happinesses
Egoic happiness
seems mostly
chemical—
survival
True happiness
is egoless—
just is
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Universal Laughter
This self is a lens
best discarded
This ego an ocean
best let run dry
This life is a breathing
best exhaled
This death one last
luminous lie
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Haiku Heart
Sometimes my
haiku heart
thinks aloud
into seventeen
syllables
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Truer and Truer
Agreement
is not truth
Resonance
so much truer
Ajata truer still
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Ajata
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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Heart Base
Individual, fragmented
separate awareness
is accomplished on a via—
The heart base
Letting go
of the heart base
is letting go
of individual experience
A worthy achievement
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Two Fallings
There’s falling asleep
There’s falling awake
Two lettings go with
widely different
destinations
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Cataract Surgery
Having someone
apply a scalpel
to my eyeball
has yet to make it
onto my
bucket list
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Game of Drones
Seems to me that
current warfare
should by right
be called a
Game of Drones
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Metaphor Mix
I’ve raised
the bar
on under
the wire
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Vilest of the Vile
The Orange Man is the
most vile creature
to set foot on Earth
Since Satan
invented sex
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That Mysterious Force
What force
What power
What sleight of hand
transmutes the
anatomical body
to a sexual one?
What motive
What agreement
elevates the
flesh and bone
and puss and feces one
to the desirable?
What spell
subverts
spiritual cause
to physical effect?
Don’t tell me
this is “natural”
Don’t tell me
this is not
a mystery
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Current Mind
75 years’ worth of
3,000 6-sense
records
each second
That is a lot
of garbage
The utter opposite
of invaluable
What to do?
Sort?
Categorize?
Reconcile?
Align?
Drown?
Ignore?
Discard?
Ignore + Discard =
Let go
The answer:
Let go
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Borders
What are the
borders of
personal
awareness
and how real
are they?
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Evaporating Mind
The egoic mind
if not energized
say by craving
or resisting
or by good ol’ thinking
will eventually
evaporate
It is a matter of
opening up and
gently letting go
So simple to say
so hard to do
aka not do
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Good Riddance
Relinquishing
the individual mind
also relinquishes
all urges
compulsions
obsessions
And good riddance
to them all
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Peace
aka Equanimity
The purpose
of peace
is the freedom
to be
with whatever is
as whatever is
To then see
what is
To then know
what is
To then let go
what is
To then cease
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Stillness
I know stillness now
I can sense it
The storm is breaking
the waves ease
and settle
It’s a delightful whisper
a long longed for
striven for haven
of no me
no thought
no feeling
no movement
the purest space
This beautiful aloneness
pure and true
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Be Afraid
Be Very Afraid
Remember—
Should Trump
be elected President
and should he then
go from dys- to
non-functional
say senile out
completely
Remember
who would then
be president
Think frying pan
Think fire
Be afraid
Be very afraid
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Equanimity
Equanimity—
Not affecting
nor affected by
anything
Neither cause
nor effect
Just aware
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Release
The gripping hand
The gripping mind
Open every hand
Release every grip
Let evaporate
all things
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Dilemma
My existential
dilemma—
I cannot find
the un-be button
And I have looked
everywhere
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Fauna Death
Does the fox fear death?
Does the wolf, the whale
the partridge, the bear
the mosquito, the fish?
Or is death just a you
win-some/lose-some
game to them?
Just a brief little sting
as the fox kills
(and eats) the hen
and she’s onto the
next hopefully
sharper-toothed
life, said the hen
to me one morning
Not so our apparently
greed-crushed
and cursed
human race
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The Ubiquitous Smartphone
I know that
smartphones
are ubiquitous
As for me, happily
I am neither
Ubi or Quitous.
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Longchenpa Says —
Six Pith Instructions
There are six essential things
To undertake in spiritual practice:
Abandon the filthy swamp
of the affairs of this life
Do whatever it takes to erect
the throne and parasol
of timeless awareness
free of limitations
Do whatever it takes to dispel
the pitch-dark gloom
of ignorance
Do whatever it takes to nurture
the seedlings of meditative
experiences and realizations
temporary though they be
Do whatever it takes to wake up
from the dreams of perceptions
based on the confusion
of dualistic consciousness
Do whatever it takes to acquire
the treasure that is the fruition
of the three kayas
These are the instructions
of holy masters
Keep them in your heart
Longchen Rabjam (1308-1363)
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Iceberg of Cause
Life is at the
very tip effect
of the causational
iceberg
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The Same
Just be and
let it all go
are the same
Not siblings
not twins
the same
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Shut Up
“Shut up!”
he explained
“Stupidity is a dish
best served
as silence!”
he explained
Rearing on his
back haunches
Glorious for
all to see
Look at me!
Look at me!
The Know-It-All
has spoken
The braindead
megaphone
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Enlightenment
Seems to me that
enlightenment
is a series of
wakings up
a series of returning
to truer and
truer and
truer
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Poem versus Novel
A poem is as long
as any novel
It just contains
more space
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My Blessed Tinnitus
My Noisy Teacher
My intrepid tinnitus
is letting me see
is letting me hear
that stillness
that silence
is different
so very different
from our human
in-the-head-ness
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Sambhogakaya
I suspect, nay
believe
Sambhogakaya
creates the self
moment by moment
every moment
insidiously
insanely
incessantly
::
Sambhogakaya
I suspect
Sambhogakaya
creates the self
volitionally
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Our Prison
We are imprisoned
by mental images—
Indra’s Jeweled Net
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Investigation
Empty and desireless
cold and thin
simple and genuine:
investigate
phenomena
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Meaningless
One day
lust will cease
as a word
with a working
definition
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