Wednesday, May 10, 2017

By May the Tenth

A butterfly in 1967.
Tuesday afternoon tonight.
History may be written but only love is transmitted.
Dream the dream but love the one.
Science is good theory but bad science.
Self-awareness is inevitable because time is an illusion.
But because space appears, expect delays.
Caterpillars are creating their cocoons because.
When the great divide appears, you won't believe it.
No more words for now.
Spontaneous, transformative and one.

Sunday, May 7, 2017

The Wild Child

"I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots" –Walt Whitman

Consciousness tells it like it is. Whether consciousness listens is the story. There's no commandments but compassion is the last judgment.

And loving death is the only way to truly live. For death is the mother of all concepts. And bhakti is the perfect deconstructor.

Like lilacs last and the cherry blossom—mayday the docks are emptying the river of wild child as if.

For the Merrimack is offspring of the Winnipesaukee and Pemigewasset— the smile of the great spirit and beautiful water in a high place.


Always Dreaming

Memory is the mirror in which pure awareness manufactures self-awareness. It's as if Narcissus turns himself into a pond to see the seed of hydrogen in water. So the rings of space-time are like cross sections of a tree that always stands.

What if the princess falls in love with a public frog making mizu no oto every night? Evolution isn't what you think it is but so am I. And lilacs by the roadside is the beauty truth forgets.

Venus and Mars are out tonight but Mercury is the secret knowing. One sees the light by deconstructing shadows. So relax. The Tao doesn't take the worship of false idols personally.

Saturday, May 6, 2017

deuces and one-eyed jacks

universal consciousness
identifying

with a part
of the universal

is personal
slash divisional—

war, insanity
and suffering.

whatever,
give me more!

because
the two of hearts is played,

the one-eyed jack appears—
who is the ace of spades?


Sunday, April 30, 2017

Transcreating Christ: Do unto Oneself

Ask and you are given. 
Seek and one is finding. 
Knock and be opened.
For every asking is receiving 
and the seeking is the finding 
and the knocking is being opened as oneself.
Or is there a person among you, 
if your child asks for bread, 
will be giving instead a stone?
Or if asked for a fish, offer snake?
So do unto oneself as you would do for others.


Note: Obviously, I recognize that this is a somewhat radical transcreation of Matthew 7:7-12, but one I feel is not only necessary, but inevitable, if one sees 7:11 as some poor priestly interpretation of the wisdom in the previous lines, and so not included here ("If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?"). Once this is seen, it is also seen that 7:12 is not some lone line sticking out as a sore thumb and translated as a golden rule, but instead is directly connected to 7:9-10 and the beautiful two lines before those. Nisargadatta Maharaj, the great Indian sage, says, “If you think that Buddha, Christ or Krishnamurti speak to the person, you are mistaken. They know well that the vyakti, the outer self, is but a shadow of the vyakta, the inner self, and they address and admonish the vyakta only.” Thus 7:12 is not some gilded rule of personal conduct but exactly that address to the inner self, oneself. Let Christ be Christ.


Saturday, April 29, 2017

Transcreating Christ:
Christ Consciousness is Non-volitional
and All-encompassing

How does Christ Consciousness come to be?
It's as if we humans cast seeds in the ground, 
and while we’re sleeping and rising night and day, 
the seed is springing up and growing in a way
we're not aware, for the earth is executing
without our doing a thing—first the blade, then the ear,
then the full grain within the ear. And when the crop is ripe,
one is sending for the sickle presently for the harvesting.
  
And to what shall we compare this Christ Consciousness? 
It’s like a mustard seed—
which when planted in the ground is the smallest
of all the seeds on earth. But once the seed is sown, 
it rises to become the greatest of all the greens,  
and puts forth its all-encompassing branches
where even the birds of the heavens take refuge.
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