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Wordplay
Oh, my word—
an l-less world
Oh, my woof—
an l-less woolf
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Self-Preservation
Of course
the Universe
masquerades as
Unknowable
For were we to
truly know it
it would vanish
This is called
Universal
Self-Preservation
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My Crossing
Nibbāna — My Destination
Magga — My Course
Stillness — My Compass
Dhamma — My Wind
Sila — My Sail
Zānāpānazen — My Vessel
Samsara — My Waters
Word — My Log
And may my
crossing
stir a sleeper
steer a seeker
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My World
Buddha — My Sun
Dhamma — My Sky
Sangha — My Earth
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Experiment Earth
I think Earth
is an experiment
gone very
(a) wrong
— if carried out with good intent
(b) right
— if carried out with bad intent
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Divine Savant
a working definition of God
God, the Divine Savant
or Rain Main
is that Awareness who
like Dustin Hoffman
in the movie
(246 toothpicks)
at a single autistic glance
can tell the precise number
of sub-atomic particles
in the universe
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The Mind Hand
I am gaining a hold on
the compulsively
gripping mind hand
The grasper of thoughts
The chaser of notions
The finder of words
The liver of dreams
The sounder of rhyme
The eater of food
The painter of pictures
The brusher of teeth
The hoper of hope
The conjurer of image
The hidden projectionist
The Wizard of Oz
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Gluttony
versus Integrity
The satisfaction
of gluttony
versus the
satisfaction
of a word kept
The one makes
you burp
The other makes
you smile
The one burns
your heart
The other
gladdens it
The one weeps
in shame
The other sings
with strength
The one is death
The other life
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Story Length
I think a story
should be as long
as it is
compellingly told
Not a word longer
Not a word shorter
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A Friendly Whisper
I will tell you
a secret
There is no god
and he is
always with you
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Self-Induced Karma
We keep brilliant
mental records
of our intentions—
that is Karma
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Shocking
Turn up
the volume
on surprising
really loud—
you’ll reach
shocking
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Our Mental Records
We keep incredible
mental records
The amazing
thousand-dimensional
contents of a single
mental image
is extraordinary
is ineffable
Is devastating
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Exegesis
The closest
my father
ever came
to explicating
flowers and bees
was showing me
how to shave
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Through Karma to Nirvana
A Path of Letting Go
We all maintain
immaculate
impeccable
multi-dimensional
mental records
of all our
intentions
Of every single one
even the smallest
of wishes
whether for ourselves
or for others
Each to one day
resurrect and
bite (or pat) us back
This is all there is
to Karma
Letting go
as in cease
the record keeper
aka mental recorder
aka self
aka ego
is letting go of
all Karma
This the wise
call Nirvana
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Pains
Small and Large
There’s nothing to
make you forget
a little pain
like a larger pain
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True Peace
Peace is
spiritual ease
is leaving be
is letting go
is be
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The Missing Syllable
Radical Islam
lost the
syllable not
to make it:
Thou Shalt Kill
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Simplify
A simpler way
of saying
“just sit” is
just “sit”
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Content
The mind
craves content
emotionally
distractionally
Anything is
apparently better
than nothing
Any thought
Any image
Any feeling
Any anything
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Sisyphus’ Trouble
Sisyphus pushed
really well the
first ninety-five
percent—
It was the last
five he had
trouble with
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A Welcome Spring Sound
A Welcome Spring Sight
You hear them
before you
see them
A thousand geese
voices on the air
In not like a vee
in more like a
drawn bow
Valiant home
wingers
Headed for
Canada
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Lethal Glues
Aversion glue
is just as strong
as Attachment glue
Both quite lethal
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Language
versus Experience
Language is
a large gathering
of experiential
synonyms
Language is never
the experience
Language is
only its naming
Humans share
experience
but not language
This is the cause
of many problems
God did a cruel thing
at Babel
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Blessed Silence—
Sage Advice
If you have
nothing to say
say nothing
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Ego Borders
Thought cannot
cross the ego
border
Only with the
help of
language
Alternatively—
Shed the ego
and with it
all borders
Then think
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Aging Hearing
My hearing
has grown
very swift feet
and is now
heading for
the hills
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Improbables
Don’t diss the spirit
The liver is
more improbable
than are ghosts
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Surrender
Softly, softly
surrender
Body, mind
and ego
Surrender means
relinquish control
return to lender
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Memory
The purpose
of memory
is to create
the illusion
of time
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Maturing—
aka Years Rolling By
You know that you’re
getting on in years
when “the other day”
and “the other year”
mean pretty much
the same thing
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Doings
Physical doing
is called doing
Mental doing
is called thinking
Spiritual doing
is called being
Samadhi doing
is called seeing
Buddha doing
is called knowing
Nibbana doing
is called ceasing
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Buddhist Meditation
Buddhist Meditation
is not unlike picking
an intricate lock
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A Being
A being is be-ing
whether
knowingly
or not—
Being as verb
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Cessation
Into Stillness
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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Dead Still
The other day
I sat so still
My mind thought
I was dead
and took off
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