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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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