Breadcrumbs 2025: Michael's Rabbit Hole
(Unpublished Reflections – September 30, 2025)
The Stillness Before Time
Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner
Website: https://thestillnessbeforetime.com
Blog: https://thestillnessbeforetime.blogspot.com
PDF: https://thestillnessbeforetime.com/thestillnessbeforetime.pdf
The Ponderings of Yaj Ekim
Blog: https://theponderingsofyajekim.blogspot.com
PDF: https://thestillnessbeforetime.com/theponderingsofyajekim.pdf
Breadcrumbs 2025
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Blog: https://currentyearroughdraft.blogspot.com
PDF: http://www.thestillnessbeforetime.com/breadcrumbs2025.pdf
Breadcrumbs 2023 & Beyond
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Blog: https://breadcrumbs2023.blogspot.com/
PDF: https://thestillnessbeforetime.com/breadcrumbs2023.pdf
Michael’s Rabbit Hole
A Selection of Breadcrumbs & Other Aphorisms
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Michael's Rabbit Hole
The Sanctity of Grace
Contentment … true, unsullied, full-hearted, overflowing, eternal.
Have You embraced it yet, or are You so bound, so trapped, by the illusion of space and time,
That the inner guard, the inner controller, will not, at least occasionally,
Allow You a taste of the sanctity of grace.
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The One Moment That Rules Them All
Analog or digital, the clocks tick,
The pages of calendars page after page flip,
But the moment is ever the same, all across the stage,
All across the very unique perceptions, each considers a cosmos.
Each and every one, naught but an imaginary perception.
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Don’t Need No Nothing
Don’t need no readers.
Don’t need no disciples.
Don’t need no renown.
Don’t need no fortune.
Don’t need no dominion.
Don’t need no schemes.
Don’t need no trophies,
Don’t need no nothing,
Except to be left alone.
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The Right-Here-Right-Now of Eternal Life
Eternity is the right-here-right-now-this-very-timeless moment.
All one needs do is still the mind, be the moment, the great all and nothing is,
And that quixotic thing called eternal life, is Voilà! theirs, in the given every-day mundane,
As it has ever been, as it will ever be, in this mortal dream of space and time.
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Giving Over to Sovereignty
If You truly discern there is no other, discern there is truly naught but a vast ineffable oneness,
Why are You still justifying and rationalizing and apologizing for your existence,
To the other, who ultimately does not exist, any more than You do.
How challenging to participate, and yet remain aloof.
How challenging to give over to the sovereignty inherent in all.
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Heaven or Hell, Your Choice
Heaven or Hell, You every moment choose to reside.
No need for some deity, or gaggle of the same, to decide.
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The Never-Enoughers
Why is the moment not enough?
Why is the awareness not enough?
Why is the mystery not enough?
Why is eternity not enough?
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The Holy Trinity
… Creation … Preservation … Destruction …
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The Entitlements! The Entitlements!
How many conceptual arenas, we take for granted,
That ancestors in all times across the world,
Took many thousands of years to discover and create.
Discoveries and creations that we now embrace as entitlements.
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The Timeless, Spaceless Awareness
Awareness is the emptiness, the nothingness, the vacuum, the ethereal constant,
Through which … earth, wind, water, fire … timelessly, spacelessly, kaleidoscope.
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Quantum Everything
Quantum stardust.
Quantum earth.
Quantum wind.
Quantum water.
Quantum fire.
Quantum sun.
Quantum moon.
Quantum planets.
Quantum clusters.
Quantum universe.
Quantum perception.
Quantum archaebacteria.
Quantum eubacteria.
Quantum protista.
Quantum fungi.
Quantum plantae.
Quantum animalia.
Quantum everything.
A vast matrix of quantum design,
All kaleidoscoping through the ether of awareness.
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The End Is Nigh
As lead pipes were to ancient Rome, plastic will be to the entire world.
Oil and electricity began their advent in the late 19th century,
And their juggernaut is racing down a dead-end road.
It all seemed so exceptionally remarkable in the early stages,
But has, in a little over a century, become an overwhelming leviathan.
Who can more than speculate the conclusion to a very punitive decline and fall.
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Looking, Looking
Looking back, who-what-where-when-why-how, have You ever really been?
Looking to the fore, who-what-where-when-why-how, will You ever really be?
Looking right-here-right-now, who-what-where-when-why-how, are You really?
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In This World!?
You were expecting consistency and rationality,
In a world ruled by irony and paradox?
How credulous can You be?
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A Quantum Mystery
Quantum matrix.
Quantum illusion.
Quantum delusion.
Quantum dreamtime.
Quantum here-now.
Quantum mystery.
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The Planet of the Blobs
Some blobs climb.
Some blobs dig.
Some blobs float.
Some blobs swim.
Some blobs fly.
Some blobs crawl.
Some blobs slither.
Some blobs walk and run.
Some on four legs.
Some on two.
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Naught But Empty Assertion
What life form can help but be, whatever its coding created it to be?
An algorithm that stretches back to the origins of life in the soupy mix of long ago.
To believe there is free will, is but the empty assertion of ignorance.
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A Symbiotic Dance
Doubt and detachment have a symbiotic relationship,
In their amble, their dance, their dreaming,
Into the obscurity of oblivion.
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A Solitary Walkabout
Everyone has a different world,
Everyone has a different universe,
Everyone has a different perception,
Just as real, just as imaginary, as yours.
We are very much, all alone, all together,
Wandering the same stage, in solitary minds.
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Clearing a Toxic Mind
Full, focused breathing, with a pinch of detachment,
Is probably one of the better ways to clear a toxic mind.
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The Everyday Horror Show
It might be a bit frightening to walkabout amidst so many grubs (a.k.a., blobs),
If you had not been acclimated by so many aquariums and science fiction movies.
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The Nature-Nurture All Abide
When You exited tabula rasa of the womb, innocence ran the show for a relatively short duration.
But very gradually, one onerous experience after another, scratched and sliced, and created the scar tissue,
The certain reactions – of the persona, of the character, of the identity – to which You are so attached.
It is the nature-nurture reality, that all life forms must endure, in whatever fate has been allotted.
And it will carry on – unabated, unrelenting, unyielding – until oblivion regains dominion.
All emotions, all passions, all feelings, all desires, all fears, all dreads, to the contrary,
The you, You think You are, is but an imaginary fallacy from the mind’s get-go.
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The Rule of Ignorance
If there is going to be any kind of future for the human paradigm,
It would agreeable if all of it were not ruled entirely,
By the ignorance of vanity and greed.
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Fallacious Catechism
Fallacious tribal catechism strikes again.
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Even One Blink
Even one breath, one swallow, one blink, different,
Would have spun a different fate for your entire cosmos.
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Stay Humble
Stay as humble as your vain notions allow,
For You are truly no greater nor lesser than any other,
Across the farthest shoreless shore, of this most infinite mystery.
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The Absurdity of All Religion
How self-absorbed the human species is, to think, to believe,
That some deity on high is so wrapped up in all their absurdities,
That he/she/it are so enraptured with their everyday boring blah-blah,
That he/she/it monitors and tabulates and judges their every single move.
Jesus, people, get over your imaginary, exceedingly preposterous bullpucky.
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As Descartes Was to Doubt …
As Descartes was to doubting all things,
The next trick is totally letting go,
Of everything. unto Self.
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The Migration of Mind
Every language has its migration.
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An Ironic Deception
How long will we deceive ourselves,
Into believing, into hoping, that technology,
Can ever unscramble all the problems it has created?
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The Glitter! The Glitter!
You can have all your diamonds and your measly piles of gold.
They are only glitter in the quantum mirage, in the quantum dust pile.
Given value by minds that will never discern the mystery in which they flail.
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The Lovers of Pain and Suffering
Mother Nature and Death are lovers, and do so enjoy inflicting as much pain and suffering, as possible.
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The Absurdity of All Belief Systems
All belief systems end up being more than a little beyond absurd.
Why would eternity care whether or not You awaken to it or not?
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Bask in This Moment
Bask in the very right-here-right-now,
Ever-present, unborn-undying, eternal moment,
You are, have ever been, will ever be.
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Fin
The imaginary you is born just once.
The imaginary you dies just once.
Anything else is delusional.
Anything else is absurd.
Anything else is ludicrous.
Your life is but a brief dream.
Get over all your trifling notions.
Abandon your make-believe creation.
That very last rattle will be the end of you.
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The Game of Charades
Measuring the measurable is the charade of the human mind.
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Eternal Life Is in This Very Moment
Eternal life is in this very right-here-right-now moment.
Timeless, unborn-undying, indivisible, indelible, ineffable.
The only You there is, there ever was, there will ever be.
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The Gossip! The Gossip!
The world is filled with every sort of gossip,
Which You may partake, or not,
As disposition allows.
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The Eternal Absoluteness
The timelessness,
The adroitness,
The deftness,
The perfection,
The dexterity,
The indelibility,
The precision,
The presence,
The swiftness,
The mystery,
The ineffability,
Of the moment,
Is eternally absolute.
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No Two Alike
Like snowflakes, like fingerprints,
No two dreamtimes, no two frames of reference,
Even once exactly the same, across this entire ineffable mystery.
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The Illusory Notion
You move, You stream, You flow, You course, You surge, You kaleidoscope, You dance, right along,
Through the eternal moment – ever untouched, ever untainted, ever unborn, ever undying.
Only memory, only imagination, journeys the perception of space and time.
Only memory, only imagination, cast it more than illusion.
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The Choiceless Reality
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in the big bang of genesis?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in the first etching of life?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in all the natural selection since?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in all the nature-nurture since?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your awareness?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your existence.
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your universe?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your world.
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your geography?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your family?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your mind-body?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your intelligence?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your health?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your birth order?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your name?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your culture?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your ethnicity?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your gender?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your appearance?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your language?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your caste?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your economic level?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your values?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your beliefs?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your politics?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your capacities?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your education?
Where was the free will, where was the choice, in your world view?
Where is the free will, where is the choice …
In your next breath, in your next heartbeat, in you next thought?
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Even If You Knew Everything
Even if You knew the absolute truth of everything that lead up to this moment,
It would still only be the busy-busy of the ever-churning, imagination-ridden mind.
Naught but an evolutionary concoction, however its origin is deemed to have come about.
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On Being You
What guilt, what remorse, should a lion have, for being a lion?
What guilt, what remorse, should a shark have, for being a shark?
What guilt, what remorse, should a piranha have, for being a piranha?
What guilt, what remorse, should a scorpion have, for being a scorpion?
What guilt, what remorse, should an eagle have, for being an eagle?
What guilt, what remorse, should a wasp have, for being a wasp?
What guilt, what remorse, should You have for being You?
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A Centerstage Solo Act
Everyone is centerstage in their own perception of a cosmos.
Dancing away, entirely alone, in their little speck of eternity.
To embrace the aloneness is to be free of the imaginary other.
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The Stages of Existence
When You, the unborn-undying awareness, are in a newborn body, You play newborn.
When You, the unborn-undying awareness, are in a toddler body, You play toddler.
When You, the unborn-undying awareness, are in a child body, You play child.
When You, the unborn-undying awareness, are in a teen body, You play teen.
When You, the unborn-undying awareness, are in an adult body, You play adult.
When You, the unborn-undying awareness, are in an elderly body, You play elderly.
From newborn, to whatever end, there is agony, there is ecstasy, and the shadow of death,
Which must be endured, as stoically, as rationally, perhaps as detached, as the given mind allows.
There is only one exit in any existence, and any choice in the matter is very much nil-nada-naught-zilch.
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Shakespeare Live
The entity You are so transfixed by, so devoted to, so attached to, so bound by, so imprisoned by,
Is really nothing more than a memory as soon as the timeless moment kaleidoscopes on.
And everyone wandering about playing their vain impromptu protagonists so real,
Makes for Shakespeare very much live across this whirling pale blue dot.
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Moment You Are
There is no beginning, there is no end, in the moment You are,
The moment You have ever been, the moment You will ever be.
The world is naught but a quantum illusion, an imaginary perception.
The real You is prior to consciousness, prior to all appearances.
Prior to all attributes, all qualities, all traits, all elements.
There is no other; duality is but the mirage of mind.
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Breathe It In, Breathe It Out
Breathe in the quantum nothingness, breathe out the quantum nothingness.
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The Poof of Imagination
Every mask and body, ever donned, has dissolved into oblivion.
Consciousness incarnating, consciousness imagining, each and every character.
Ever-remembering, ever-forgetting, within the illusory kaleidoscoping of the space-time matrix.
Your mind-body, ever transforming, ever morphing, even as You translate these words.
It can never be more, it can never be less, than the ageless, eternal moment.
And yet, through it all, imagination ever imagines it all tangible.
The same entity, the same identity, from birth to death.
And before and after that, for those mesmerized,
By religious propaganda, by pious puffery,
Celebrated by snake oil zealots high and low.
All of it, nothing more than the poof of imagination.
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A Nomadic Existence
Have managed to get by without having to participate more than loosely with any groupthink.
Always just kept rambling on, leaving everything and everyone in the rearview mirror.
Nomad, gypsy, wanderer, traveler – are good labels for how it has worked out.
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To Question, to Doubt
Settling for the idolatry of the ceaseless stream of fictitious deities,
Is the venue of all who lack the intellect, the critical mass,
To question until all questions run out of steam.
To doubt until the doubting is done.
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The Intelligent Design
How can the ultimate be encapsulated by imagination?
You are a smidgeon of the intelligent design.
Your access is this very moment.
Stilling the mind is all that is required.
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The Infinite Web
The cosmos, the world, has a near infinity of ways,
To lure the imaginary mind into its ensnaring web.
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An Undeniable Fact
Every mind has its own indivisible frame of reference.
You and everyone else have a completely unique perspective.
No translation, no rendition, no interpretation, can ever be the same.
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A Deterministic Fate
All existence is caught in the seemingly endless wave of a very deterministic fate.
The most real way to live it out, is to just follow your nature, and wander the path of least resistance.
And, as stoically, indifferently, as possible, let it all go when the dreamtime is undone.
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In Aloneness, Freedom
To embrace the aloneness, is to be free of the imaginary other.
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Flickers of Perception
There it was, right there, right then,
And now, gone, gone, forever gone.
Naught but a flicker upon a neuron trail.
A perception in a mortal frame of reference.
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No Capturing Reality
Putting into words That which no word can capture.
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A Blob of Crunchy-Chewy-Gooey
You are nothing more than a blob of crunchy-chewy-gooey,
With arms, legs, fingers, toes, a larynx, a face, and other accoutrements,
That, paired with imagination, hoodwink You into believing You are something more.
But there is no more, this is it, this is all there is, a one-time theater, nothing more, nothing less, poof!
No deities on high, no heavens, no hells, just this timeless moment, this here, this now,
For You to play out, to imagine, however your nature-nurture calls.
Demon or angel, your decision, every moment.
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This Life’s Calling
This life’s calling has been to discern and scribe the ultimate reality, that this mind has,
Through a relatively anonymous, relatively mindful, relatively stoical walkabout, fathomed.
What comes of these many thoughts, if anything, will be for as yet-unborn storytellers to discern.
Impactful or not, how could it matter, to the Me, the Self, the awareness, the unborn-dying,
The mystery, that every moment, is witness, to whatever kaleidoscopes through it.
Whether conscious or not, we are but clouds, matrixing though the abyss.
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The Tools! The Tools!
We are all tools of our own survival,
Of our own narcissistic-hedonistic Shakespeare,
Braiding the given perception, through which all life is cast,
In a garden that germinates, that naturally-selects, a so-called future-past,
In the timeless-spaceless continuum, playing out in an infinite, imagination-driven matrix,
That imagination has seamlessly usurped, and made into a dreamtime dominion,
Passing through the omniscient-omnipresent-omnipotent awareness,
Passing through the abyss, through which all genesis flows,
Like clouds streaming through the eternity’s sky.
The moment is all, the moment is one.
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The Stories That Survive, and Thrive
Everyone’s story is beyond-all-pales, absolutely, primo-unique.
But only a rare few, are storyteller enough, for us to learn their fable,
And pass it on, for as long as imagination dictates, it worth remembering.
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The Eternal Quest
Enlightenment is the distillation of worldly, temporal experience.
Liberation is the attaining of the purest, most austere, state of consciousness.
What is the point of inquiring into Buddhahood, into Christhood, if You do not attain it?
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The Quagmire of Idolatry
It is an ineffable, indelible, beyond-all-pales mystery.
To call it God – to deify it, to idolize it, to flatter it, in any way,
Is really nothing more than an endless quagmire of meaningless absurdity,
To which all are unique witnesses, in their very solitary quantum-matrix dreamtimes.
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Zilch Nada Nothing
All those many thoughts You have about your imaginary self,
Your imaginary world, Your imaginary cosmos,
All total up to zilch-nada-nothing.
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A Timeless Freedom
Eternity cannot be harnessed by a clock.
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The Immeasurable Moment
Now is not a clock.
Now is not a watch.
Now is not a calendar.
Now is not any measure.
The moment is immeasurable.
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Once Is More Than Enough
What is karma, but another word for consequence, upshot, outcome,
And every existence has its share, rippling and stumbling on down the line.
No need to imagine a slew of other lifetimes, for which You must supposedly pay.
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Good Fortune From Afar
Someone always triumphs in the Great Game, the Game of Thrones.
Sit upon the mount until someone wrestles them off, one way or another.
Count yourself lucky if it is your good fortune to witness it from afar.
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The Unlikely Vote
Regarding the greatness with which our kind cloaks itself,
How would our fellow earthling cast their vote,
Had they the unlikely opportunity?
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Twisted Consciousness
What resides between good and evil,
But a gamut of consciousness,
A spectrum of imagination,
A continuum of perception,
Twisted in every feasible way.
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How Quickly
How quickly everything becomes its memory.
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The Deification of Revenge
We fabricated every form of deity to punish those we could not,
And heavens and hells and purgatories in the hope, in the yearning,
That there would be a reward for all our pain and suffering,
And an eternity of hellfire for those who wronged us.
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The Nature of Tribalism
Such a tribal species we are, in which some win, some lose, and most get by, best they can.
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Why Pretend?
Why pretend to know something, if you do not?
Why pretend to be something, if you are not?
Why pretend there is more, if there is not?
Why inwardly pretend anything at all?
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Health, the Only Wealth
Your health is your greatest wealth,
And that, too, depletes, slow or fast,
As sure as the sand in any hourglass.
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Blips of Meaninglessness
At the universal echelon,
All our conflicts and exertions,
All our pain and suffering and angst,
Are, at best, mere blips of meaninglessness.
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Catch and Release
The trick to being in the moment,
The trick to being in the awareness,
The trick to being the eternal nowness,
Is simply releasing into the immeasurable.
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The Great So It Goes
If You cannot discern it, fathom it, perceive it, for your Self,
No one on this whirling orb, is going to convince you,
To persuade you, to exhort you, to convert you,
In any way, in any shape, in any form.
You will be a done deal, forever and a day.
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An Overwrought Dynamic
What is the human paradigm but an overwrought dynamic,
A garden world of imagination in exponential bloom,
That holds no sway over the mystery, whatsoever.
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How to Solve a Problem
Glass half full.
Glass half empty.
Break the damn glass.
Problem solved.
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Day or Night, Same Eternity
There is no day, there is no night, there is only now,
Lit or unlit, by a tilt, by a spin, round a ball of fire.
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Through the Looking Glass
The only perfection anyone can lay claim to, is the one everything is,
Or nothing is, depending how one flips the mirror in the looking glass.
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Omnipresence, Omnipotence, Omniscience
Omnipresence is to be fully engaged in the moment.
Omnipotence is to be tapped into the infinity, the totality of eternity.
Omniscience is less about knowledge, than it is about being open to all potentials.
About being the awareness, the invisibility, within all things,
In the moment that allows all things.
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The Root of Absurdity
To want something,
To want anything,
From an illusion,
From a mirage,
From a dream,
And fear it, too,
And dread it, too,
How absurd is that?
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A Dubious Assumption
Chronometers exist.
Sundials exist.
Clocks exist.
Watches exist.
Timers exist.
Calendars exist.
Almanacs exist.
Logbooks exist.
Diaries exist.
Chronicles exist.
Journals exist.
Timetables exist.
Planners exist.
Newspapers exist.
But the thing called time, they supposedly measure?
Well, that is a dubious assumption.
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The Omniscient Mind
Omniscience is in the knowing, in the discerning, in the seeing, in the intelligence,
Of the given unborn-undying, indivisible, indelible, ineffable moment.
It is not about the trivial pursuit of gathering knowledge,
About the illusion of this manifest theater.
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The Fluke of History
Any memory, any history, is the fluke of any given neural matrix,
And all the many perceptions of an ever-streaming dream.
Can any family, any tribe, any society, hold fast,
Without a binding communal vision,
A frame of reference upon which all agree?
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The Mammalian Mutation
Emotional attachment is a naturally-selected biochemical blend,
That cultivated the familial and herd-slash-tribal alliances,
That enabled the survival of all mammalian lineages.
That long ago mutation is but one of the myriad reasons,
You are sitting there imbibing this stream of consciousness,
In your right-here-right-now shard of this inexplicable mystery.
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Living and Dying in Oblivion
What dreams have been,
What dreams will some moment be,
Are all the same right-here-right-now dreamtime.
And all, naught but oblivion-to-oblivion delusions of imagination.
The oblivion between – obscured, cloaked, masked, concealed, muddled – by illusion.
An illusion made by however many senses and a processing unit,
In a vacuum of a mystery beyond all pales.
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Is There More to It?
Is there really-truly more to this great mystery?
Some great philosophy?
Some great rationale?
Some great meaning?
Some great ethos?
Some great motivation?
Some great principle?
Some great overtone?
Some great plan?
Some great function?
Some great intention?
Some great aim?
Some great objective?
Some great design?
Some great consequence?
Some great worth?
Some great upshot?
Some great idea?
Some great subtext?
Some great significance?
Some great value?
Some great importance?
Some great corollary?
Some great connotation?
Some great inference?
Some great concern?
Some great nuance?
Some great requirement?
Some great point?
Some great implication?
Some great resolve?
Some great magnitude?
Some great moment?
Some great belief?
Some great outcome?
Some great inspiration?
Some great hope?
Some great purpose?
Some great raison d'être?
And even if there is, why would You need to care?
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The Willy-Nilly Mind
The willy-nilly butterfly of consciousness,
Does not effortlessly reside in the stillness of the eternal moment,
Flitting on and on, ever consuming its sensory-inspired cosmos, unto the last wheezing breath.
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The Truth of Oblivion
From oblivion to oblivion, and the oblivion between, cloaked by illusion.
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The Long and Winding Illusion
Long before You were imaginary You, You were monkey-like.
Long before You were monkey-like, You were shrew-like.
Long before You were shrew-like, You were grub-like.
Long before You were grub-like, You were slime.
Long before You were slime, You were stardust.
Long before You were stardust, You were nothing.
Long before You were nothing, what is there to say?
As if before anything space and time really means squat.
The Great Humility
Great capacity, great miracles, great magic, great anything,
Do not make any manifest entity greater than the lowliest grub.
Humility is where those who realize the truth of this mystery reside.
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How Long Before It No Longer Matters?
Comedy or tragedy that it may seem now, how long before it no longer matters?
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A Daily Certainty
The unsparing absurdities of consciousness, the unsparing absurdities of imagination,
With its more than infinite capacity for subterfuge and mayhem and chaos,
Is, sadly, a daily spectacle, a daily onslaught, a daily certainty.
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Call It Whatever
Call it God.
Call it eternity.
Call it perpetuity.
Call it kaleidoscope.
Call it nonduality.
Call it continuum.
Call it streaming.
Call it creation.
Call it oblivion.
Call it genesis.
Call it cosmos.
Call it season.
Call it duality.
Call it space.
Call it time.
Call it You.
Call it epoch.
Call it infinity.
Call it mystery.
Call it moment.
Call it anything.
Call it everything.
Call it nothingness.
All the same, no difference, no matter.
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The Challenge of Detachment
To discern it all illusion, is one thing; to detach from it, quite another.
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No Mind Alike
Just because You or someone else imagines something, does not necessarily make it true.
Every culture has its storytellers of every ilk, all spinning their buzz,
Some bent on truth, some bent on untruth.
Sifting through it all, every mind, its own dreamtime.
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The Path of Least Resistance
People tend to choose the path of least resistance,
Due to a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors,
All of which prioritize comfort, efficiency, and minimizing effort.
This tendency is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history,
And is reinforced by the way our brains are wired,
To conserve energy and seek immediate gratification.
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The Life of Grub
Grubs who can talk.
Grubs who can walk.
Grubs who can think.
Grubs who can create.
Grubs who can believe.
Grubs who can adore.
Grubs who can war.
Grubs all the while.
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The Relentless Rolodex
Memories, all the many perceptions of the given existence,
Virtuous or corrupt, sensible or insensible, are not something easily discarded.
Hence, the relentless rolodex, ever spinning on and on and on,
Through the quantum pathways, zippity-zip.
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The So It Goes of It
All my too many thoughts are out there if anyone wants to read them, and if not, so it goes, I had my fun.
Nothing I, or anyone else, has ever said or written, is going to change the human paradigm.
13.8 billion years of natural selection will have great difficulty being undone.
And, as I often conclude in my rather misanthropic rambles: I will be glad to be wrong.
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That Which Words Cannot Tell
We thinkers are always trying to put into words, that which words cannot tell.
Staring into space is not something the mind easily allows,
In the snappity-snap of the neuron trail.
It may all be illusion,
But it is the only illusion we pretend to know.
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The Grubs! The Grubs!
Meandering through the churning crowds,
All there is, is one grub after another, kaleidoscoping by.
Even the most beautiful, even the most handsome,
Cannot long masquerade their grubbiness,
In the eye of the discerning seer.
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The Way of Modern Slavery
The one-percenters and their minions finally figured it out.
Why feed and house and clothe and chain and whip the slaves,
When You can pay a wage or salary, and proffer a few token gestures.
Advancements, titles, rewards, medical, retirement, labor unions, scholarships.
Let them feed and house and clothe and chain and whip themselves, however they will.
Keep them if they serve the ship well, and if not, well, throw them overboard.
There is generally almost always someone else to swab the deck.
As to quality of existence issues, let them eat cake.
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You Do Not Have to Come Back
As challenging as it well is, to be so disciplined, to be so free of desire and fear,
So free of the narcissistic hedonism of the passionate monkey-mind,
No one can force You to respond with even one ripple,
In the neural network, in the quantum sea,
Of the mind in which You dwell.
You do not have to engage.
You do not have to come back.
The world will move on without You.
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Noisy Mind v. Serene Mind
What is all the knowledge, all the noise of the world,
But a busy thoroughfare of minds ill at ease,
With the silence of a serene mind?
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Devotees of the Promised Land
Has any on-high deity ever been as judgmental,
As all the minions who pledge their undying belief,
That only they are worthy of the promised land?
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Dark Thoughts
No need to carry out your dark thoughts, if You can imagine them.
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Filling v. Emptying
At what point does one's existence, become less about filling, than it does about emptying?
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The Oblivion of Existence
Impenetrable
Impossible
Impractical
Inaccessible
Incomparable
Indestructible
Invulnerable
Irresolvable
Unachievable
Unapproachable
Unassailable
Unattainable
Unavailable
Unbeatable
Unchallenged
Unfeasible
Unmatched
Unobtainable
Unparalleled
Unreachable
Unrealistic
Unrivaled
Untouchable
Unviable
Unworkable
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Dancing With the Devil
It may all be the pixie dust of illusion,
But it is the only pixie dust we know.
Dancing with the Devil, so to speak.
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The Mystery is All
You are the mystery, the mystery is you, get over your imaginary self.
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The Abyss of a Mystery
The reality we all orbit around, the reality of every moment,
Is that we are truly very much all alone in this abyss of a mystery.
And nothing is going to change that, and nothing we do, nothing we think,
Really means squat, in any way, in any shape, in any form.
Be ye saint or serial killer, no matter.
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All for Illusion
All that desiring.
All that coveting.
All that wanting.
All that yearning.
All that craving.
All that obsessing.
All that aching.
All that envying.
All that longing.
All that aspiring.
All that wishing.
All that pining.
All that thirsting.
All that fancying.
All that hungering.
All that hankering.
All that demanding.
All that voraciousness.
All for illusion.
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The Bubbles of Process
Interesting how sketches of thoughts bubble into mind,
And word processing, with the aid of spelling and grammar checking,
And finger-play access to dictionary and thesaurus support,
Fashion each into their own little sculpture.
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The Overwhelming Nature of Imagination
So much of everything, all imagined; who does not, at least occasionally, feel overwhelmed?
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A Tralfamadorian Nod
Nature can be harsh and painful and deadly.
Any instant can bring forth a face-off with injury or death.
Darwin coined concepts like natural selection and survival of the fittest.
Others call it fate, destiny, kismet, upshot, fortune, providence.
Tralfamadorians sum it up with a ‘So it goes’ nod.
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The Consumption! The Consumption!
Consumption is a great distraction, a great amusement.
Right up there in the nebula of power and fame and fortune.
And, of course, sex, however, whenever, if ever, opportunity strikes.
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No Corner Untouched
Imagine the Darwinian purity of this spinning orb,
Before humankind migrated across it like a malevolent cancer,
Wreaking death and ruin, pain and suffering, in every nook and cranny.
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Co-creators of an Imaginary Perception
Every creature that has ever existed, or will ever exist,
Has its own sensory perception, its own naturally-selected niche,
Which both creature and niche, have cooperated, have conspired, in creating.
Every single life form has been a co-creator in the genesis of this imaginary perception.
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The Eternal Moment is All
That memory, that perception, that vision, that insight, from the way back when,
Is no more or less real, than the memory-perception-vision-insight kaleidoscoped through just now.
Nor is it any more or less real, than the projected future imagined by the frame of reference,
Playing out in the space-time, that does not exist, has never existed, will never exist.
The eternal moment, the eternal ever-present, the eternal awareness, is all.
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The Distraction! The Distraction!
It is all nothing more than distraction,
Inspired by vanity and avarice,
Narcissism and hedonism,
Hubris and hunger,
Pride and greed.
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A Rare Calling
Your attachment to your world, your cosmos, your perception
Draws You out again and again and again, ever again.
Your eyes, the sights.
Your ears, the sounds.
Your tongue, the tastes.
Your nose, the smells.
Your flesh, the touch.
To remain in the awareness is an every-moment challenge.
To be in the dreamtime, but not of it, is a rare calling.
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What is Any Existence?
What is any existence but a long and winding series of womb-to-grave phases.
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… a lineage born of mystery …
… here You are …
… a kaleidoscoping lineage …
… created of an unfathomable mystery …
… from the big bang of the singularity … what matter how it came to be … 13.8 billion years ago …
… an extremely hot, extremely dense point, rapidly expanding space and time itself …
… an ever-inflating cosmos, expanding and cooling and evolving …
… into the formation of subatomic particles …
… into the formation of protons and neutrons …
… into the formation of hydrogen and helium atoms …
… into gravity pulling together matter to form the first stars and galaxies …
… into between 200 billion and 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe …
… into a small milky galaxy containing hundreds of billions of stars …
… and one of those stars, center of a solar system over 4.6 billion years old …
… a solar system that evolved from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust …
… a cloud, called a solar nebula, that flattened into a protoplanetary disk …
… in which planets, moons, asteroids, and comets formed from the remaining material …
… with ongoing collisions, gravitational interactions, and changes to planetary orbits …
… and on one of those planets, a pale blue dot, third from its star, 90 million miles distant …
… formed from dust and gas particles approximately 4.54 billion years ago …
… a planet with atmosphere and oceans and continents, driven by internal heat, gravity …
… emerged unicellular life (single-celled organisms) …
… that evolved into animalia (multicellular life) …
… that evolved into chordata (animals with backbones) …
… that evolved into tetrapoda (four-legged organisms) …
… that evolved into mammalia (milk-producing animals) …
… that evolved into primates (an order of mammals) …
… that evolved into hominidae (great apes) …
… that evolved into genus homo (contemporary humans) …
… 3.8 billion years of natural selection, and counting …
… 3.8 billion years for You to be right here, right now, this eternal moment …
… kaleidoscoping whatever destiny, whatever dreamtime, the singularity set in motion in the long ago …
… You are the singularity … You are the mystery …
… be the singularity … be the mystery …
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A Philosophical Pipedream
A higher state of beingness, is the leap that consciousness, the leap that imagination,
Must somehow attain, if it is to survive humankind's naturally-selected origin.
And the likelihood of setting aside its survival-of-the-fittest paradigm?
Well, a few days-worth of headlines in these our modern times,
Makes for short work of that philosophical pipedream.
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The Illusion of Time
Time is nothing more than a human concept, imparted reality,
By sundials, clocks, watches, calendars, and the like.
All inspired by the regularities of a cosmos,
That is ultimately nothing more than quantum illusion.
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The Noise! The Noise!
The mind is a story.
It is all distraction.
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Naught But Vibration
Words cannot but tell.
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No Frames, No Boundaries
Why should You ever feel bound to any geography,
Or any world or universe or dimension,
Or any illusion, whatsoever?
Discern the one-pointedness of the inner eye.
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To Be in Eternity’s Moment
As much as possible, focus completely on whatever the mind-body is doing.
That way, the willy-nilly mind, will perhaps dally less in the halls of memory lane.
And perchance much less in the absurdity of our kind’s Shakespearian stagefest, as well.
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The Freedom of Eternity’s Moment
The world is awash in every manner of disharmony and distraction.
Only in the pure, still awareness of eternity's moment, is there true peace.
It is the eternal life, free of all the rancor of imaginary consciousness.
Free of the dreamtime illusion, to which humankind is so attached.
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What Are You Really?
Are You this imaginary self, this attachment to the mind-body,
Or the indescribable, indivisible awareness, the unfathomable moment,
Through which it sprints willy-nilly, in whatever way nature-nurture ordains.
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Like a Cat With a Mouse
Imagination is always just offstage, ready to pounce into any moment of inattention.
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The Unbounded Mind
The universal mind,
Is a total mind, a whole mind, a complete mind,
A peerless mind, a matchless mind, an absolute mind, a sovereign mind,
Free of all constraints, all confines, all restrictions, all limits, all margins, all curbs, all boundaries.
Which leads to the question, where is the mind that holds on to nothing?
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The Insanity of the Human Paradigm
The entire human paradigm, this Shakespearian theater inspired by imagination, is unutterably insane.
What is called sanity, what is called normal, what is called rational, what is called sensible,
Is nothing more than being able to function reasonably well in the absurdity.
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The Failure of Science
Science, despite all its noble, rational efforts,
Has failed to convince a paradigm programmed by 13.8 billion years of natural selection,
In large part shaped by superstition and fallacy.
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The Cradle of Time
There is no past, there is no future, without imagination, imagining it so.
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Pausing the Willy-Nilly
What a challenge to not allow imagination to wander willy-nilly,
Into all the identifications with the mind-body perceptions of a so-called lifetime,
And all the memories it so easily dredges into an illusory reality,
That is not, was not, and will never be.
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Eye Wide Open
You are like any theater or film actor, who plays a part,
Knowing full well, any given centerstage moment, that s/he is not that role.
So here now You are, playing on cue, the script that your nature-nurture programing summons forth.
Whether or not, You have realized the centerstage clarity, simplicity, lucidity, eloquence,
Is how cognizant of this illusory quantum dreamtime, You are, or are not.
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The Ageless Moment
The mind stamps perceptions with times and dates,
But are any, however so-called old, however so-called young,
Really at all that different, in the timeless moment that does not truly exist?
Even just a moment ago, is the same as the moment of genesis,
The moment it all began, in the way back when.
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The Worm Within
Between that mouth and anus, the worm is still in play.
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How Long Is a Moment?
... an iota of a smidgen …
... a smidgen of a jot …
... a jot of a speck …
... a speck of a scrap …
... a scrap of a particle …
... a particle of a bit …
... a bit of a speck …
... a speck of a grain …
... a grain of a scintilla …
... a scintilla of an iota …
… is how long the moment is not …
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On Being You
To be the You, You truly are,
The quantum mind must pacify its self,
The five senses be witnessed without attachment,
And eternal awareness, resume its ever-present sovereignty.
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A World of Idolatry
Why in any deity’s arbitrary name,
Would You ever embrace any idolatrous religion or cult,
Imagined, concocted, fabricated, manufactured, by the human or any other mind?
Free your Self from all the baseless absurdity that binds You.
You are it, it is You, there is no other.
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The True Eye
Discern the one-pointedness of the inner eye.
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Another Day
Another day, staring into the abyss.
Into the beginning of all ends,
The end of all beginnings,
And all the in-betweens, too.
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You Are It, It Is You
What could possibly be more omniscient-omnipresent-omnipotent,
Than the dimensionless, immaculate awareness, permeating all eternity.
It is through naught but a frame of reference that You perceive your universe.
Call it by whatever sound, whatever vibration, You will … You are it, and it is You.
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The Neutrality of Awareness
As You would a vehicle, shift the mind into neutral, and eternal awareness is right there, ever-present.
What could possibly be more omniscient-omnipresent-omnipotent, than the awareness permeating all?
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Why Believe Anything Imagined?
Why believe things You have never seen?
Why believe in any deities?
Any superstitions.
Any fallacies.
Any delusions.
Any sasquatches.
Any vampires.
Any pookas.
Any ghosts.
Any aliens.
Any angels.
Any demons.
Any tooth fairies.
Any Easter bunnies.
Any Santa Clauses.
Any fantasies.
Any apparitions.
Any specters.
Any assumptions.
Any spirits.
Any phantasms.
Any visions.
Any bigotries.
Any notions.
Any deliriums.
Any injustices.
Any mirages.
Any prejudices.
Any fixations.
Any judgments.
Any distortions.
Any figments.
Any illusions.
All are imagined.
The mind is but a story.
It is all distraction.
Free your Self.
Let them go.
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A Veiled Mystery
How has it taken You so long to discern the obvious?
How have You been so attached to this dust ball covered with grubs?
Grubs veiled in every guise, playing every role, and You, spellbound, seeing it all real.
Bewitched and beguiled, each and every moment, by the mind-body’s ever-kaleidoscoping dreamtime.
Unable, unwilling, to awaken to it all being nothing more than an inexplicable quantum illusion.
A dreamer, dreaming it all so real, all so true, wanting it to be more than it can ever be.
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Naught But a Frame of Reference
It is through your frame of reference that You perceive your cosmos.
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Attaining Eternity
To attain eternity, the mind must become:
Very still.
Very quiet.
Very spaceless.
Very timeless.
Very here.
Very now.
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A Visualization of God
Herein is visualized an awareness.
… Omniscient … Omnipresent … Omnipotent …
Prior to and beyond, any and all conceptual contrivances.
So infinitesimally to infinitely, ephemerally, unfathomably immense,
As to indivisibly permeate the indelible quantum sea,
Without bounds, without judgment.
You are it, it is You.
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Quantum Illusion, All
The cosmos is a quantum illusion, the world is a quantum illusion, You are a quantum illusion.
Everything You believe, everything You think You know, is a quantum illusion.
And yes, alas, these many thoughts are a quantum illusion, too.
Nothing is as it seems.
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Why Me, God? Why Me?
Why me, God, why me? Why me, God, why me? Please, God, why me-me-me!?
The lamenting refrain since the mind’s self-absorbed beginnings.
The ascent of imagination in the jungles of long ago.
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Just a Grub
You are just another erstwhile, one-trick-pony grub,
Conditioned, programmed, by imagination,
To believe You are something more,
Than a dream can ever be.
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Same Mystery for All
All creation is of the same mystery.
Only imagination, imagines otherwise.
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Threading Your Way Through Infinity
You are the current issue of 13.8 billion years old programming.
The long and winding of your thread of natural selection since genesis.
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No Thing Left Unnamed
Anything not having one name or another in the ever-roiling dreamtime of the human mind,
Will not likely agonize without for long, once targeted for use or abuse,
Or even just the idle distraction of frivolous curiosity.
And that having little or no purpose, having little or no meaning,
Can simply be ignored or tossed or destroyed, and without further ado, forgotten.
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The Singularity You Are
You are the singularity playing out your slice of the quantum matrix.
You are the singularity playing out your slice of the quantum dreamtime.
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Ever a Mystery
The ears hear the mystery.
The eyes see the mystery.
The skin feels the mystery.
The nose smells the mystery.
The tongue tastes the mystery.
The mind discerns the mystery.
Yet the mystery remains a mystery.
The one in all, and the all in one.
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Cousins of the Puddle of Origin
Just because your most recent ancestors came out of a noteworthy geography,
Does not mean all did not come out of the same puddle of origin,
Long before there were any brain cells to recall it.
All life has far more in common,
Than all the many differences we imagine.
Than all the many differences we ceaselessly squabble over.
Than all the many differences driving all life into a dark and foreboding future.
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The Mystery of Intelligent Design
Was life born 13.8 billion years ago when the cosmos burst forth?
Was life born 4.6 billion years ago when the solar system began its whirl?
Was life born 4.54 billion years ago when the earth formed into the pale blue dot?
Was life born 3.8 billion years ago when the first single-celled organisms began to replicate?
Or has what we call life, what we call existence, always been but an unborn-undying quantum illusion?
An illusion witnessed by an ineffable awareness, witnessed by an inexplicable intelligence,
Permeating every aspect, of the mystery, which, by design, can never be known.
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On Your Own, for All Eternity
What permission, what approval, what sanction, what consent, what affirmation,
Can be given for this unfathomable insight into which You inquire?
There is no other, You are on your own, for all eternity.
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Heavens, Hells, and the Perditions Between
Some minds manage to realize heaven.
Some minds are shackled in unutterable hells.
Some minds wander the byzantine labyrinth between.
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True Faith
Have faith that Mother Nature will do everything that she possibly can,
To diminish and annihilate You, every moment of your eternal existence.
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The Imaginary Mind
The only heaven, the only purgatory, the only hell, is the one the given mind imagines.
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No Exit From the Théâtre de L’Absurde
Always beyond the pale astounding, how more is never enough for so many.
Wealth is a state of mind, and so many with so much, seem to live such impoverished lives.
The quest for power and renown orbits in the same bankrupted emptiness.
How the masses rank them high, is a théâtre de l’absurde.
Only the departed are allotted true peace.
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Shadows Across the World
What demons all shades of gray lurk in so many minds.
What tyranny the mentally unstable cast upon the world.
And there being no resolution, it must simply be endured.
13.8 billion whirls of natural selection will not be annulled.
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The Story of Existence
What is heaven but unending oblivion?
What is hell but the absurdity of madness?
What is perdition but the pendulum between?
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Witness to a Dream
Whether You are a monk in a cave, or a householder in a mansion,
The quantum dreamtime ever kaleidoscopes the same eternal moment.
Your destiny is already here and gone, but it is You who must witness it.
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You Can Only Be What You Are
A vision of the mystery, so infinite, so infinitesimal, it cannot be imagined, You can only be it.
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A Means to an End
It is not You who does anything.
It is consciousness, it is imagination, that is the doer.
You, the real You, the awareness permeating all creation, is but eternal witness.
Eternal observer, perceiver, to everything under every sun, in every space, every time, every dimension.
In every point and particle, in everything known, in everything unknown.
The mind-body is but a means, a vessel, a vehicle.
You are that which is God.
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As Illusionary as You
The illusory quantum matrix is not the creation of aliens or other supreme beings,
Because they would be as much fabrications as all we dreamers of space and time.
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The Ever-Spinning Imagination
The universe spins.
The earth spins.
The mind spins.
All in your imagination.
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Truth is Truth
Truth is truth, neither objective or subjective.
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Put No God Before Self
There is absolutely nothing, in any ancient writings worth their salt,
That will in any way, validate the idolatry, of any form, of any concept.
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The Reality of the Human Paradigm
Despite all narcissistic assertions,
Human beings are but …
Grubs with heads.
Grubs with eyes.
Grubs with ears.
Grubs with nose.
Grubs with mouth.
Grubs with skin.
Grubs with arms.
Grubs with hands.
Grubs with fingers.
Grubs with legs.
Grubs with feet.
Grubs with toes.
Grubs with imagination.
On a return journey to oblivion.
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A Vast Sea of Relativity
The quantum matrix is a vast sea of relativity.
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A Question of Values
Jiddhu Krishnamurti once said, "Do whatever amuses You,"
Which means one thing to a saint, and another to a serial killer.
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That Which Some Call God
You are a drop, a shard, of that which is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent.
You are the mystery of awareness, the ether of eternity.
You are that which some call God.
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The Regrets! The Regrets!
How likely is it that probably almost every two-legged who has ever existed,
Has a fairly lengthy list of regrets, of many things they wish they had never done or said.
Assuming, of course, they, from the ultimate view, ever really did or said anything in the first place.
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What So Many Will Endure
For as long as the forebrain is a-synapsing, many will endure myriad tortures,
And beyond that, others will perhaps take it upon themselves,
That to which they feel most obligated.
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The Trickster
Gravity fools the sensory mind-body into believing,
It is not floating in the motionless abyss,
Of the awareness You truly are.
The quantum cosmos is but a trickster,
Holding You hostage to imagination’s binding veil.
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A One-Way Show
One thing that can be said about the continuum called space-time,
Is that that it is a one-way, here-now, kaleidoscoping quantum show.
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True Grit
True grit is the courage and resolve, the strength of character,
The determination, the steadfastness, the tenacity, the doggedness, the firmness,
To hold fast, to cling, to hang on, to grasp, to grip, to clutch, to clasp, to stick, in a difficult situation.
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The Kaleidoscope of Perception
Your world, your cosmos, is an ever-changing set of mind-body perceptions,
That hinge on age, on frame of reference, on what is remembered, on what is forgotten,
On what is valued, on what is not, and in large part, on the circumstances of the given moment.
There is no right or wrong to it … there is simply the … it is what is … so it goes … of it.
The challenge, is realizing that the real You is not the sensory-bound mind-body.
That You are none of it, have never been any of it, will never be any of it.
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The Pointlessness! The Pointlessness!
At some point in the given moment, it makes more sense to just let it all go.
To put everything possible aside, to stop imbibing all the gossip and absurdity,
And just sit, peacefully staring into space, when not taking long solitary walkabouts.
To simply be as nothing, to simply be the momentary awareness, is the first and last step.
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Life is Like That
Sometimes You hit a home run.
Sometimes You hit a triple; sometimes, a double; sometimes, a single.
Sometimes You get walked; sometimes You hit a foul.
Sometimes You even strike out.
Life is like that.
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To Be In the World, but Not of It
What does it mean: To be in the world, but not of it?
It is a mind that is prior to consciousness.
It is a mind filled with awareness.
A still mind, a silent mind,
It is a mind that sees the world.
It is a mind that hears the world.
It is a mind that tastes the world.
It is a mind that smells the world.
It is a mind that feels the world.
Yet remains a mind untouched by the world.
Yet remains a mind unconcerned about the world.
A mind filled with the awareness that is prior to the world.
A mind permeated with the awareness that is prior to all creation.
A mind given over to the mystery, to the unknown, to the no-mind, prior to all.
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All You Need Do
As one does not ask for power, one takes it – one does not ask for freedom, one assumes it.
All any seeker need do, is wipe away the mitote – become so totally attentive to the given moment,
That the big dream, the fog of perception, the many voices, the many influences,
That are constantly speaking, making it difficult to see clearly,
Suspend their cacophony, are shuffled offstage,
And the quantum mind-body unleashes into all eternity.
The eternity that it is, that it has ever been, that it will ever be.
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A Spoonful of Caution
A spoonful of caution, of restraint, in the younger moments,
May well save You a great deal of vexation in the older ones.
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Oh Where, Oh Where
Where does the drop end and the ocean begin?
Where does the ocean end and the drop begin?
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Nothing to Justify
No point justifying your existence.
No point anyone trying to justify their existence.
No one has ever asked to be born, to live out an existence.
And all must die, to discern it all nothing more than a fluke-ish dream.
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A Most Serious Observation
Duality v. Nonduality: Seriously, can there really any question in a critical thinker’s mind?
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We Told You So
It is getting rough, and only daily rougher for more and more little folk,
And ‘We told You so’ is not going to stop the crashing wave.
The baby boomers caught the upsurge at its peak,
And the millennials and their progeny will get the crash.
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Nothing New, Nothing Old
Nothing new under the sun; nothing old, either.
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Awareness, Witness to All
It is only an illusionary quantum dust ball,
Spinning in an illusionary quantum dust cloud.
The eternal mystery of awareness, witness to it all.
Spaceless, timeless, unborn-undying, indelible, ineffable.
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The Journey Through Illusion
How to negotiate, how to navigate, how to traverse, an illusion,
Is a – conundrum, challenge, enigma, puzzle, riddle – for any seer.
Ergo, every form of absurdity, some very light, some exceedingly dark,
In all geographies, across all times, no individual or culture exempt.
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The Faceless Breath
The most important thing in your existence, is your next breath,
Which gives You yet another opportunity, another chance, another opening,
To perchance see, to perceive, to discern, to comprehend, to realize, your own faceless.
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Ever Mysterious, Ever Free
When You no longer identify with the mind-body’s dreamtime, what is left but the awareness.
Pure, simple, indelible, spaceless, timeless, ephemeral, unfathomable,
Indivisible, infinite, infinitesimal, ineffable,
Ever mysterious, ever free.
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The Roots of Hell and Damnation
Why, in God’s name, would any God need You to believe in anything?
Why is it, our species always imagines jealous, hateful, vengeful deities?
We may exclaim them loving and wise and all-knowing and all-accepting,
But whoa, whoa, whoa – unhappy perdition and every imaginable hell –
Unto those many who do not make the thumbs-up-thumbs-down cut.
If God is as judgmental as we, who gets to throw the first stone?
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The Source of Continuity
Without imagination, where can continuity reside?
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What It All Boils Down To
The human paradigm boils down to me-myself-I narcissistic vanity,
And must have it right now, more-is-never enough, hedonistic greed.
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The Journey Ahead
Try as many now on the upside of daisies might, there is no undoing the world our kind has fashioned.
The journey the future has in the making, is likely replete with every dystopian horror imaginable.
And those who will be born into it, will have no choice, but to endure it as stoically as possible.
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No Rest for the Wicked
Odds are little or none of all I have written will survive my demise.
And do I give a rat's ass, whether-or-not the human paradigm survives itself?
Why would I? Hey, I'm just a scribe, man, and all this babble is what came to mind.
Would have been far easier to take more strolls, stare at more walls, and watch more movies.
But no, this inanity is what called, to such a degree, that carpal tunnel and stenosis are daily reminders.
And still, the thoughts keep bubbling up in the gray matter of this mind’s frame of reference.
As the idiom goes, there is no rest for the wicked; yes, one of my many demerits.
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My Donation to the Future
My Self-appointed function in this relatively anonymous walkabout soliloquy.
Is to put into perspective all that humankind has created and destroyed,
And perhaps aid in setting a course for that which will follow,
Assuming there even is something that follows.
And if it never aids the unfolding debacle, so it goes.
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Pretenders, All
Does an ant pretend to be an ant?
Does a salmon pretend to be a salmon?
Does an elephant pretend to be an elephant?
Does a salamander pretend to be a salamander?
Does an alligator pretend to be an alligator?
Does a butterfly pretend to be a butterfly?
Does an eagle pretend to be an eagle?
Does a germ pretend to be a germ?
Does any creature pretend it is what it is?
As for human becomings, we well know our forebrain paradigm.
Pretenders, all, each and every one, in every way, in every shape, in every form,
Like water questing every venue, imagination divines every possible possibility imaginable.
Does any creature have, could any creature have, the imaginary sense of self in which our kind harbors?
The unborn-undying moment is home to all sentience, home to the instinctual roots,
And only the delusion of imagination pretends otherwise.
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Involuntary Incarceration
No one asked to be here.
No one was asked if they wanted to be born, if they wanted to die.
No one was asked if they wanted to suffer the ecstasies and agonies of existence.
No one really knows squat about who.
No one really knows squat about what.
No one really knows squat about where.
No one really knows squat about when.
No one really knows squat about why.
No one really knows squat about how.
We are all just faking it, playing our little part, the best we can.
Some awaken to it, to varying degrees, in various ways and means.
Most, still very much in the very deep, delusional slumber of imagination,
Play out the dreaming, so that the chosen, are able to realize the eternal eye within.
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What Will You Do?
… when your family has failed You …
… when all your leaders have failed You …
… when all your faith systems have failed You …
… when all your economic systems have failed You …
… when all your sociological systems have failed You …
… when all your consumption has failed You …
… when there is nothing left to believe …
… what, pray tell, will You do? …
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You Are Your Own Law
To assert You are your own law, is not an arrogant declaration,
But a statement of fact, regarding the values, the tenets, the principles,
To which You, in all your attachment to your imaginary character, subscribe.
And everybody else doing the same; it is the way all minds work; no point debating it.
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Eternal Witness to the Quantum Theater
The awareness You every moment are, and are not, is eternal witness to the quantum theater.
It has no stake in it, makes no judgment of it, plays no part in it, is ever-present in every moment of it.
Human imagination, with all its dualistic notions, founded upon its sensory-based stream,
Has made-up, has spun, all the deities, all the heavens and purgatories and hells.
There is no other, but each mind must discern its source to realize it.
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The Truly Indifferent
Very challenging to remain indifferent in the day-to-day existence,
Unless complete isolation and staring at walls is an endurable state.
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Just Ain’t Gonna Happen
Your world, your universe, even your God,
Will never align with what You think it should be.
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To History, or Not to History
History has arrived with every story imaginable.
Imbibe it however You will, or not, You decide.
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A Spaceless-Timeless Dream
The world, the universe, the quantum mystery,
That the ever-present awareness You are, and are not, perceives,
Is but a spaceless-timeless dream which kaleidoscopes about You every moment.
A temporal dreamtime illusion, to which the moment only subscribes,
For as long as the given neural pathways manage to fire.
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The Bait and Switch of Organized Religion
All religions, all cults, all sects, all factions, all creeds, are rife with guiles,
That guarantee every variety of reward in some after-life fantasy,
For all the sacrifices, all the burdens, all the payouts,
You must endure and carry and forfeit,
In the right-here-right-now.
The ultimate scam,
Since we will never know when.
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Even Just
Even just one left instead of right,
One yes instead of no, one less instead of more,
One happenstance flutter of a butterfly’s wing across the world,
Would have created an entirely different destiny.
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Why Should You Be?
Jesus was never a Christian, why should You be?
Siddhartha was never a Buddhist, why should You be?
Lao Tzu was never a Taoist, why should You be?
Michael was never a Michael-ist, why should You be?
Nobody was ever the label their thoughts inspired, why should You be?
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The Every-Moment Reality
There is no beginning without an end; there is no end without a beginning.
And where does either exist in the ungraspable timelessness of the eternal moment?
Clock hands, digital displays, calendar pages, blind humankind to the every-moment reality,
Of the analog underpinning that is imbued in every quantum particle of this unfathomable dreamtime.
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A Preordained Mystery
Whatever the dimension, the mystery, the awareness, requires a vehicle to come into existence,
And sentience, to come unto consciousness, and perhaps intelligence, to perhaps come unto realization.
The fate You are stoically enduring, the for-good-or-ill role, into which destiny has cast You,
Began with a preordained throw of the dice in your mother’s fallopian tube.
And there You are, naturally-selecting, right here, right now,
Until that moment, when the Fates call You home.
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A Temporary Perception
The world, the universe, the life, You perceive, is only as important as You imagine it.
And only for as long as the mind-body is walking on the upside of daisies to imagine it.
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What Goes Up, Must Come Down
There will inevitably come a time when all that humankind has fostered,
The pinnacle, the zenith, the summit, the peak, the apex, it has reached, will collapse.
What goes up, must come down, is an unescapable, unwritten natural law, as sure as gravity itself.
All these thoughts are for that anarchistic moment, that for-the-rest-of-time dystopian epoch,
For the descendants, the inheritors, with the will and wit, with the grit and gumption,
To survive and abide the chaos of the crashing wave, that vanity and greed,
False deities, false leadership, false values, false so many things,
Have taken our kind, and that of our fellow earthlings,
And our once-upon-a-time garden world.
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The Consequences of Home Invasion
Home invasion is home invasion is home invasion.
If You expect that residents are not going to do whatever it takes to repel You,
You are seriously delusional, and likely to suffer for it, no matter how long it takes, even a millennium.
Sooner or later, You will more than likely be forced to depart, to retreat,
With your tail between your legs.
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The Illusion-Delusion
All must act, in order to survive, in order to participate, in their shard of the dreamtime.
And all will act according to their nature-nurture conditioning.
According to the choices they never had.
Their awareness.
Their universe.
Their world.
Their geography.
Their existence.
Their mind.
Their body.
Their vision.
Their hearing.
Their smelling.
Their tasting.
Their feeling.
Their family.
Their gender.
Their birth order.
Their culture.
Their ethnicity.
Their socioeconomic level.
Their intelligence.
Their language.
Their name.
Their education.
Their interests.
Their beliefs.
Their religion.
Their politics.
Their perceptions.
No matter how complex it all seems, free will is an illusion-delusion.
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The Need to Know … Everything
What is this need to know to the infinitesimal level, but imagination's inability to still itself.
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The Endless, Endless, Endless Questions!
Philosophical & Thought-Provoking Questions That'll Get Your Wheels Turning
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Philosophical Questions
Philosophical Questions That Are Thought Provoking
Philosophical Questions That Are Intellectual
Philosophical Questions
1. Is happiness just chemicals flowing through your brain or something more?
2. Can we really know everything?
3. What is the meaning of a good life?
4. Is there a God?
5. What in life is truly objective and not subjective?
6. What is consciousness?
7. Is there inherent order in nature or is it all chaos and chance?
8. Is there an alternative to capitalism?
9. Is it more important to be respected or liked?
10. Are we in the Matrix?
11. Have we become less happy in this age of technology?
12. What is mathematics?
13. Are humans obligated to better themselves?
14. Is there a meaning of life?
15. Is having a big ego a negative or positive trait?
16. Is there absolute mortality?
17. Is the most important purpose in life to find happiness?
18. Do we have free will?
19. Does life require a purpose and a goal?
20. Would You kill 10 people to save 100?
21. What is happiness?
22. How can people believe in truths without evidence?
23. Is it easier to love or to be loved?
24. What is time?
25. Do acts of kindness have a motive?
26. Is mind or matter more real?
27. Is love simply physical desire or something more?
28. Where do thoughts come from?
29. Does evil come from within, and if so, why?
30. What is beauty?
31. Are people in this current generation less or more sensitive than people from past generations?
32. Where were people before they were born?
33. What is true friendship?
34. How does gravity work?
35. Can achieving nothing make a person happy?
36. Does the Law of Attraction exist?
37. Have gadgets and apps taken away emotions?
38. Does observation alter an event?
39. If everyone spoke their mind would this world be a better place?
40. Where does the universe end?
41. Is there a perfect life?
42. What is infinity?
43. Why do we strive for perfection if it is not attainable?
44. Does sound happen if nothing is present to hear it?
45. Does utilizing time properly make our lives meaningful and happy?
46. Is it more important to be liked or respected?
47. Can life be meaningful without friends?
48. Where does the soul live?
49. How do You know if You love someone enough to marry them?
50. Is there a reason for life?
51. Do numbers in a bank account make people happy?
52. What will happen at the end of the world?
53. Is living life to the fullest possible?
54. What will happen at the end of the world?
55. Can spirituality make You a happy person?
56. What is education?
57. Are highly intelligent people less happy than individuals with average intelligence?
58. Is there a supreme power?
59. Is there an absolute way to attain a happy state of mind?
60. How did the universe begin?
61. Does living your life for others make your life have meaning?
62. Can we have happiness without sadness?
63. Do knowledge and understanding make You content and happy as a person?
64. What are numbers?
65. Does fate exist?
66. When does consciousness begin?
67. Does an ideal government exist?
68. Is life all a dream?
69. Does life have a reason?
70. If everything evolved from amoebas, how does the world still have amoebas?
71. Are there limitations on free speech?
72. The structure of DNA appears to be intelligently designed, what are the implications?
73. Do aliens exist?
74. Are we a minuscule part of intelligent life in the universe?
75. Is trust more important than love?
Philosophical Questions That Are Thought Provoking
76. Why do we do things we do not like to do?
77. If lying is wrong, are white lies okay?
78. Do atheists make their own gods?
79. How should people live their lives?
80. Can artificial intelligence be creative?
81. If judgment is for God, why do we pass judgment?
82. What is intelligence?
83. Can religious beliefs affect scientific thinking?
84. What is intelligence?
85. Will a world without reliance on modern technology make any progress?
86. Do we have a soul?
87. Is human potential capable of anything?
88. What do people strive for after enlightenment?
89. Is death a new beginning?
90. What defines You?
91. Why does God not intervene when evil takes root in people?
92. What happens after we die?
93. Does belief make God exist?
94. Isn’t one person’s terrorist another person’s freedom fighter?
95. Will robots take over the world in the future?
96. How much control do You have over your life?
97. Does the path to salvation lie within us?
98. How do You know your perceptions are real?
99. Are we the biggest threat to humanity?
100. If money cannot buy happiness, can You ever be truly happy with no money?
101. Do parallel universes exist?
102. What role does honor play in today’s society?
103. How does one find purpose in life?
104. Is a family still relevant in the modern world?
105. If aliens attack, what will we do?
106. What is true love?
107. Do guns protect people or kill people?
108. What is true strength?
109. Will racism cease to exist?
110. How do You know that your experience of consciousness is the same as other people’s experience of consciousness?
111. Why is beauty associated with morality?
112. Who decides what morality is?
113. Why do we respect the dead more than the living?
114. Is a “wrong” act okay if nobody ever knows about it?
115. Does God have supreme power?
116. What is the difference between living and being alive?
117. Will the world be a better place if caste and religion cease to exist?
118. Who defines good and evil?
119. What’s more important: doing the right thing or doing things right?
120. Why do people fear losing things that they do not even have yet?
121. Do we love ourselves more in the virtual world and less in the real world?
122. What makes a good friend?
123. Is humanity doomed to head in a destructive direction?
124. Do You make your own decisions, or let others make them for You?
125. Should full access to the internet be a fundamental right?
126. What is reality?
127. Is peace the only way to stop a war?
128. What is the truth?
129. Can memories be erased?
130. What makes You, You?
131. Is religion conceptualized by one’s own belief system?
132. What things hold You back from doing the things that You really want to?
133. Will the world come to an end by human hands?
134. What is true happiness?
135. Intelligence or wisdom, what’s more important for a better world?
136. Where is the line between insanity and creativity?
137. Is true beauty subjective or objective?
138. What one piece of advice would You offer to a newborn infant?
139. What is the extent of freedom human beings should have?
140. Does nature shape our personalities more than nurture?
141. What is the meaning of rich and poor in the modern world?
142. To what extent do You shape your own destiny, and how much is down to fate?
143. Do we control technology or is technology controlling us?
144. If You could choose just one thing to change about the world, what would it be?
145. Is it worse to fail at something or never attempt it in the first place?
146. What exactly is self-esteem and where does it come from?
147. Will a curb on buying guns and arms reduce the number of shooting sprees in the world?
148. Is the way we compensate people for their jobs ideal or should we have some way of making sure people are paid appropriately?
149. Do we change when we have power?
150. Can a person be “educated” without a formal education?
Philosophical Questions That Are Intellectual
151. Will technological advances wipe out humanity?
152. What are dreams and why do we have them?
153. Does understanding philosophy lead to progress?
154. Will it ever be possible to travel through time? Space?
155. Is there a species more advanced than humans in the universe?
156. Is defining people according to race a social construct or a biological category?
157. If all the currencies in the world did not have monetary value, would our world be a much better place?
158. Is there a difference between fair trade and free trade? What is it and which is of greater importance?
159. Is it possible time is being altered right now?
160. Is preservation of a country’s culture a good reason for limiting immigration?
161. Why do we throw away food when we know people are dying of hunger?
162. Does the English language make us feel superior to other countries?
163. Which is more important, justice or mercy?
164. Will artificial intelligence help increase human lifespan in the future?
165. Is it always good to have choices?
166. Does awareness of consciousness have benefits?
167. Is torture ever justified?
168. Do thoughts have a pattern?
169. When You are driving and see one shoe on the side of the road, what do You think happened to the other shoe?
170. Will stricter laws make a better world?
171. Should we limit the amount of money people can earn and save to avoid an unequal distribution of wealth?
172. Are we losing our right to privacy?
173. Since the birth rate is down in the United States, should people be required to have at least one child?
174. Is limiting immigration to developed countries right?
175. Does democracy work for every country?
176. Does faith make belief stronger?
177. Should people have the right to live and travel anywhere they wish with no state or country boundaries?
178. Why can’t every person be a genius?
179. Should people be allowed to sell their organs and should organ donors be financially compensated?
180. Is there freedom in creativity and art in the modern age?
181. Should the government make organ donation compulsory?
182. Do the simple things become complexities when we try to attain perfection?
183. Should governments have penalties for those who live unhealthy lifestyles?
184. Will concepts and theories in regard to religion becoming obsolete come true?
185. Is love different from sexual desire? Passion? How?
186. Is blind belief prevalent more among holy, spiritual, and pious people?
187. Is there a cause for every event?
188. Can dreams be associated with the unforeseen future?
189. Do wars ever solve the problems of countries and governments?
190. If we live in a civilized world why do we see so many distinctions between rich and poor?
191. Can some things exist that aren’t in time?
192. Do computers have the ability to be creative?
193. Does luck exist?
194. What rights, if any, do animals have?
195. Are clowns funny or scary?
196. Are there universal human rights? What are they?
197. If time travel is possible, would we have met time travelers already?
198. Are emotions rational or irrational?
199. Does an afterlife exist?
200. Do You think anyone has actually met their true soulmate?
201. Can we know about happiness without knowing about sadness?
202. Does time have a beginning or an end?
203. Are people born evil? Or do they end up doing evil things as a result of early childhood experiences or other external factors?
204. Is beauty truly in the eye of the beholder?
205. Are we morally obligated to help others?
206. Is world peace achievable?
207. Are people natural-born leaders, or do they develop the traits over time?
208. What harsh truths do You prefer to ignore?
209. Is suffering a necessary part of the human condition?
210. What would You genetically change about humans to make them a better species?
211. How much does language affect our thinking?
212. If You could press a button and receive a million dollars, but one stranger would die, would You press the button?
213. Has social media been a net positive or a net negative for our society? Why?
214. Is existence necessary?
215. Do the cosmos have a purpose?
216. If humanity was put on trial by an advanced race of aliens, how would You defend humanity and argue for its continued existence?
217. What’s the difference between justice and revenge?
218. If babies are considered innocent, when do people cease to be innocent?
219. Where does your self-worth come from?
220. Why are drugs banned but not harmful food additives and alcohol?
221. Is it ever okay to share a secret?
222. How long will You be remembered after You die?
223. How likely do You think it will be that humans will last another 1,000 years without killing ourselves off?
224. Would You want to know You are going to die beforehand or die suddenly without warning?
225. Does the study of philosophy ever lead to answers or simply more questions?
The Dance of Creation and Destruction
In all creation, there is destruction, and in all destruction, there is creation.
Yet, is do either have any actuality, when comprehended from the quantum baseline?
That which is spaceless, timeless, indivisible, indelible, unfathomable, immeasurable, ineffable.
This world, this cosmos, is a grand quantum illusion, a Shakespearian théâtre absurde.
To which, despite all assertions to the contrary, You are solitary witness.
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The Eternal Beingness
You are a sovereign, absolute eternal being.
The mortal challenge is to be the timeless beingness,
The timeless awareness, the timeless nowness, You truly are,
Instead of the imaginary one You pretend to be.
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Unwrapping Your Mind
You imagine so many things,
And not one of them is ultimately real.
Not one of them is ultimately true.
To unwrap the mind around it,
Is to let go of everything.
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The Mystery Behind Every Face
The same unfathomable, ineffable mystery is behind every face,
Ever witnessing whatever dreamtime, into which it has been inexplicably cast.
All creatures, small to great, equally play out their nature-nurture part.
Whatever role the genetic lottery's natural selection has ordained.
It is an indivisible, ever-kaleidoscoping quantum reverie,
The totality of That which can truly be called God.
In which, despite any and all appearances,
Are one in the same for all eternity.
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The Distillation of Perception
What any given mind-body perceives, is distilled by its own frame of reference,
Into its own account, its own narrative, its own chronicle, its own story, its own saga.
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What is Real? What is Not Real?
All things are as real as imagination makes them.
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The Planet of the Grubs
Some grubs climb.
Some grubs dig.
Some grubs float.
Some grubs swim.
Some grubs fly.
Some grubs crawl.
Some grubs slither.
Some grubs walk and run.
Some on four legs.
Some on two.
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Run Silent, Run Deep
How pointless holding on to this world, and its incalculable absurdities.
Find peace in your Self, and run silent, run deep, in the eternal moment.
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This Very Singular Moment
Eternity is happening this very right-here-right-now, unborn-undying, spaceless-timeless moment.
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Self-Absorption Across the Board
No one wants to know you in the way you do in your imaginary existence.
Everyone is too busy in their own self-absorbed dreamtimes,
To bother more than superficially about yours.
And, no doubt, you about theirs.
The drive for recognition is meaningless.
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The Dystopian Driver
Curious how so many have faith that technology will save us,
When it has really played the greatest role in taking us down.
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A Koan for All
Why is it, that neither You, nor anyone else,
Nor any other creature, small to large,
Have ever seen their own face?
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The True Root of All Evil
Money, in all its many forms, is not the root of all evil.
Vanity and avarice are the makers and shakers of that dynamic.
Money is merely the ways and means in which Mammon is worshipped.
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A Kaleidoscoping Wander
Sometimes frameless in eternal awareness, sometimes framed in mundane imagination;
Sometimes detached, unborn-undying, inscrutable; sometimes attached, temporal;
You, ever in the indifferent moment, wander a kaleidoscoping dreamtime.
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Viva la Revolución!
Consciousness requires a great change, a revolution, if it is to survive.
In its Darwinian-rooted urges, imagination has taken our kind down a dead-end road.
Vanity and greed have bent a reality, where we either somehow awaken, or endure agonizing destruction.
All indicators are that we our well on our way to extinction, because the naturally-selected inclination,
Appears incapable of mutating into the state of pure awareness, of God Consciousness, we truly are.
We resolutely, blindly cling, to so many narcissistic absurdities, so many hedonistic distractions,
That only an absolute and horrifying collapse, will perhaps awaken whoever survives, if any.
And odds are, they, too, will not discern the illusion, and will carry very much the same.
It will merely be the same-old-same-old, playing out on a very much smaller scale,
In a world very likely grown incredibly inhospitable to mammalian life forms.
Whether or not, or for how long, any survive, is for other eyes to witness.
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Looking Forward, Looking Back
Free will only seems like free will at the time.
Looking back, was there ever really any choice?
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The Truth of History
All histories vary in their accuracy,
Based on who is narrating it, and why.
And no matter the motive, all remain stories,
And no story can ever snare the timeless moment.
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Wake Up! Wake Up!
Are you an arm, a leg, a hand, a foot, a torso, a head, a face, a mind,
Or a mysterious, ineffable awareness playing an imaginary protagonist;
Centerstage, in an extemporaneous, choiceless, Shakespearian performance.
A beyond-all-pales reverie, in which only a rare few awaken to its greater reality.
And even they are challenged to remain awake, when mesmerized by its illusory veil.
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A Gift to the Impending
What would it take for me to take down this digital tent,
And throw everything I have authored into some nearby landfill?
How attached am I to all the many thoughts this mind-body has rendered?
How attached am I to the delusion that it might in some imminent moment be known?
How attached am I to the delusion that it might make some difference to that dystopian dreamtime?
What would it take for me to sweep it back into the oblivion from which it emerged?
The ponder is oh so tempting, but one this vanity can easily transcend.
For good, for ill, the wretched impending is stuck with it.
Assuming, of course, that both somehow arrive.
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The Ghost of Future Past
The imaginary you, is but a manifest ghost of imagination’s future-past.
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The First Stone
Pretty good odds that any first-stone-thrower is a hypocrite.
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The Silent Mind
Truth cannot be taught.
Everyone is entirely on their own,
And whatever any mind ‘gets’ or ‘does not get’,
Is absolutely based on a frame of reference only it perceives.
All the ‘belief’ systems of the human paradigm wander well beyond absurdity.
What inspires any seer, any sage, to craft a venue to share their insights?
Where would any be if we had never penned or uttered a word?
Had all our so many ponderings never been imparted?
The silent mind is an impenetrable emptiness,
Untarnished by any irony, any paradox,
Ever contrived by imagination.
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On Trying to Wake Up a True Believer
To believe any true believer, can succumb to doubt, can awaken to a greater vision,
Is not likely a sound wager, and may well get somebody knocking at your door,
Offering to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge, with an especially special discount.
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Coulda? Shoulda? Woulda?
How many thousands of hours,
Have I spent putting all this together,
Is an inanely large and unknowable number.
I could have probably been relatively prosperous,
Perhaps somewhat powerful, even renowned,
Had I put all this acuteness and energy,
Into something a little more worldly.
Alas, that that attribute, ambition,
Did not call more tenaciously.
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Solace for Ignorance
Religion is salve for the undiscerning mind.
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The Nothing! The Nothing!
Yet another dreamy day of nothing done, nothing undone.
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History’s Bill of Goods
The history of the cosmos, the history of the world, the history of the human paradigm,
Is an ever-kaleidoscoping bill of goods served to the current moment without apology.
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The Boiling Point
The human paradigm boils down to vanity and greed.
The human paradigm boils down to narcissism and hedonism.
The human paradigm boils down to self-interest and more is never enough.
And how likely is it to ever come to any happy conclusion?
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The Rare Mind
It is the rare mind,
That is not rushing, rushing, into the future,
Missing, missing, the present.
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No Happy Ending
Alas in this mortal theater,
That there is no happy ending,
Other than the ending itself.
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As It Seems
Nothing is as it seems.
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An Accidental Tourist
What is so wrong, so disturbing,
About being just a naturally-selected,
Unintentional, accidental, random, chance,
Very much all alone, happenstance of eternity?
An accidental tourist, out and about for a worldly tour.
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The Right-Here-Right-Now of Eternal Life
You are a direct line, an unconditional line, to the eternal You … There is no other.
All divisions, all boundaries, all partitions, all borders, are imagined.
All you need to do, is dial into this moment's awareness,
And You will be everything there is to be.
Eternal life is right here, right now.
Dying to the imaginary self is all it takes.
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The Universal Mind
Do You realize your cosmos, your world,
Is entirely playing out in your mind.
That You are the universal mind.
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Pay Attention
Miss the moment, You miss everything.
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A Critical Friend
In showing it the Way,
In articulating its weaknesses and failings,
I am perhaps proving to be one of imagination’s greatest allies.
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Grubs With Attitude
What is the human species but a diverse collection of grubs with a great deal of imagination,
With which they, in so many ways, make believe they are important to the universe,
That plays out, over and over, ever the same, in their wee little minds.
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Whatever It Is, You Are
Whatever the mystery is, You are.
Whatever the unfathomable is, You are.
Whatever the moment is, You are.
Whatever the awareness is, You are.
Whatever the ineffable is, You are.
Whatever the eternal is, You are.
Whatever the all is, You are.
Whatever the indelible is, You are.
Whatever the ineffaceable is, You are.
Whatever the entirety is, You are.
Whatever the matrix is, You are.
Whatever the quantum is, You are.
Whatever the infinite is, You are.
Whatever the infinitesimal is, You are.
Whatever the sum is, You are.
Whatever the witness is, You are.
Whatever the right here is, You are.
Whatever the right now is, You are.
Whatever the synergy is, You are.
Whatever the serendipity is, You are.
Whatever the whole is, You are.
Whatever the totality is, You are.
Whatever the intangible is, You are.
Whatever the everything is, You are.
Whatever the boundless is, You are.
Whatever the nameless is, You are.
Whatever the inexplicable is, You are.
Whatever the unborn is, You are.
Whatever the undying is, You are.
Whatever the indivisible is, You are.
Whatever the spaceless is, You are.
Whatever the timeless is, You are.
Whatever the absolute is, You are.
Whatever the nothing is, you are.
Whatever the creator is, You are.
Whatever the preserver is, You are.
Whatever the destroyer is, You are.
Whatever the omniscient is, You are.
Whatever the omnipresent is, You are.
Whatever the omnipotent is, You are.
Whatever God is, You are.
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My Johnny Appleseed Experiment
This long and winding aphoristic soliloquy, and the ways and means it has been Johnny-Appleseed flung,
Has been a relatively non-invasive contribution, to see whether or not a grass roots stimulation,
Whether or not some sort of rational realignment with the natural order, is possible,
In whatever future past is on the horizon for the human paradigm.
Am pretty sure I will depart existence, with the absurdity,
Still brazenly ramping up its accelerating exponential.
Racing toward the Petri dish precipices, both seen and unseen,
And in all our folly, our madness, the barest squeal of brakes to be heard.
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A Doubtful Eye
The eye that seeks truth to whatever end, is a doubtful eye.
Is a questioning eye.
Is a skeptical eye.
Is a cynical eye.
Is a dubious eye.
Is a sensible eye.
Is a vigilant eye.
Is a judicious eye.
Is a tentative eye.
Is a cautious eye.
Is a patient eye.
Is a coherent eye.
Is a rational eye.
An eye that will go whatever end is required,
To discern the most truthful truth the mystery allows.
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Goals! Goals! Goals!
Racing clocks, racing calendars, racing everything and everyone.
Goal after goal after goal, and ever something more after every finish line crossed.
The process, the course, the ways and means, often nothing more than time-wasting distraction.
And in the kaleidoscoping of each and every one, the unmoving moment presides.
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Consciousness and That Which Is Prior
Awareness is prior to all things imagined by consciousness.
Pride
Love
Hate
Anger
Fear
Dread
Anxiety
Regret
Agony
Ecstasy
Greed
Envy
Lust
Gluttony
Judgment
Envy
Sloth
Sports
Entertainment
Hobbies
Recreation
Amusement
History
Math
Science
Art
Music
Humanities
Business
Psychology
Religion
Philosophy
… et cetera … et cetera … et cetera …
Awareness is prior to consciousness, prior to all things mind.
Everything else is the huff and puff, the churning, the roiling, of imaginary notion.
Imagination has it meaning, its purpose, in the illusory dreamtime,
But it is not the baseline, for those who question.
For those who see the unseen.
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Here You Are Now
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The Free Mind
There are many loaded words – God, Brahman, Allah, Krishna, Buddha, Tao, et cetera –
But in the essential quantum matrix reality, they mean nothing.
They are only words.
They are only sounds given concept,
To which attachment need not be given in a free mind.
When you listen to a language you do not know, words you do not understand,
What attachment do you have, can you have, to what sounds to your ear like nothing more than babble?
Do you really believe your language, your linguistic repertoire, sounds any different,
To the ears, of all the many across the world, who do not know it?
The human paradigm is a chaotic sea of vibration,
It always has been, it always will be.
And the only resolution?
A silent mind.
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Preposterous
All we are is crunchy-chewy-gooey grubs,
That endlessly babble every sort of absurdity,
That vainly imagine meaning and purpose existent.
Many make-believing all the while, there is some deity,
That genuinely wants to save us from ourselves,
And our naturally-selected inane asylum.
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Judgment Day
If you have read much of this dissertation,
You fathom that I do not believe there is a separate God.
To me, it is all one; we are all God from the non-dualistic point of view,
And no religion our kind has ever conjured, in any geography, in any time, is necessary.
But, if there is a divinity that created us, to judge us, probably the only thing He/She/It is going to ask, is:
Why did you not just say no, why did you not just stop, take a deep breath,
And look candidly at the life you were living?
And discern how easily,
With just a few altered decisions,
It could have been so very, very different.
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Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Nature
Physics is the underlying form.
Chemistry is the unifying force.
Biology is the foundation of life.
Nature is the expression unfurling.
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Gaia Undone
What a silent garden it must have been,
Before consciousness took root,
And imagination blossomed.
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No Matter
It did not matter then.
It does not matter now.
It will not matter when.
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Slice It, Dice It
No matter how you slice it,
No matter how you dice it,
The entire human paradigm,
Boils down to vanity and greed.
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Of Angels and Demons
If angels and demons must be conceived,
Surely they are the imagination within all.
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The Mind-Body Dream
It all seems so very real, until it becomes so obvious, nothing is.
All appearances are but the temporary illusion-delusions of imagination.
Brief outings, sidebars, excursions, of the mind-body’s dream of space and time.
Its partnership with the ineffable, indelible mystery, from whence it inexplicably evolved.
A rock is a rock, a cloud is a cloud, an eye is an eye, until they are not.
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The Critical Thinker
What is the critical thinker – the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic, the agnostic –
But someone who can detach from his/her own value system,
And see the relativity of all perspectives.
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Hold Fast to Nothing
You begin existence with nothing,
You leave existence with nothing.
Hold fast to the nothing between.
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The Price of Existence
Death is the price all existence must pay for being born.
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A Lesson in Futility
The entire cosmos is an illusion, as is the mind that perceives it.
The intelligent designer is the eternal awareness within all creation.
It is a very-fine-dry-sand-in-loose-fingers-on-a-very-windy-day mystery.
No one can save You but your Self, and even that is a lesson in futility.
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A Mysterious Ether
You are the inexplicable, mysterious, unfathomable, immeasurable, ether of awareness,
In which all forms are but quantum mirages, imagined by an ever-present, kaleidoscoping mind-body.
With which, in which, has been staged an imaginary, impromptu, Shakespearian theater,
Where You are centerstage, improvising your extemporaneous persona.
Perhaps it is time to realize, just how alone, You truly are.
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The Uniqueness of Existence
In every sentient being that has ever been, or will ever be,
A unique existence, a unique perception, a unique universe, a unique everything.
All equally real, all equally unreal, as the eternal moment ordains.
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A Hard-Learned Lesson
Seeking the approval of others is an unending lesson in futility.
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Our Self-Absorbed Worlds
Your little corner seems so real to you, but across the stage,
No one, either notices, nor cares, about all your dramas and intrigues.
And can you truthfully disclose, you do not feel very much the same, about them?
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The Eye of the Frame of Reference
The reality is, any given reader may or may not grasp thoughts such as these as they were meant.
The reflections offered are ever subject to the frame of reference of the observer.
No thinker, no philosopher, can ever presume his or her views,
Will not be used for unintended purpose.
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Discerning the Eternal Moment
The ever-present eternal moment is not an ideal, to which one must bow and scrape.
It is an unequivocal fact, which only prior-to-consciousness, tabula-rasa awareness, can discern.
All appearance to the contrary, there is only one ultimate, nondual reality.
And it is You, and You are it; there is no other.
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The True-Believer Lucifers
It is the true believers who separate themselves from God,
Who abide in the hellscape of imagination.
Lucifer is their name,
And dualistic notion, their game.
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Of Health and Well-Being
Regarding health and well-being,
What seems so minor in younger daze,
May well loom very large in the later ones.
Moderation in all things is the way.
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Wakey! Wakey! Wakey!
Imagination is an elixir to which the human paradigm is addicted.
If imagination wishes to carry on, it had better wake up a la bigtime.
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The True Nature of Intelligent Design
The entire cosmos is an illusory quantum matrix, as are all sentient beings that perceive it.
The amorphous intelligence, is the indelibly ineffable eternal awareness, within all creation.
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The Mystery Within All Creation
Since the mystery began its spaceless-timeless quantum voyage of cosmic creation,
What was required for your naturally-selected genetic lineage,
To generate into being, the You reading this,
Is well beyond all pales.
The entire universe is an illusion,
As are all sentient beings that perceive it real.
The intelligence is the ineffable awareness permeating all.
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The Kaleidoscoping Quantum
The ethereal moment is ever present, ever still, ever serene.
But the quantum matrix is a ceaseless churning, a ceaseless movement,
A ceaseless streaming, ever kaleidoscoping through it.
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All That Remains
And that moment, forever gone, too.
And that moment, now but the vaguest of memories.
Until it, too, is forever lost and forgotten.
Sorrows, sorrows, prayers.
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The Book of Destiny
The Book of Destiny will conclude with a last scrawl and a sigh.
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Mad Hatters Across the Board
Mad? You call me mad? Well, my fine friend, that is no great distinction in an insane asylum.
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The Absurdity of Measuring the Immeasurable
What we call time, is merely the measurement of one rather insignificant whirling pale blue dot dust ball,
Orbiting another larger one, that is, in the genre of blazing dust balls, a relatively small star.
Both very much quantum equals in the vast matrix of the eternal moment.
Both are fated to someday dissolve back into the abyss.
And where will space and time be then?
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Imagination’s Usurpation of Sentience
Everyone telling you there is more, but there is not.
It is all a lie; a lie to keep you in the game.
A bittersweet lie to keep the dreamtime in play,
For as long as imagination can continue its usurpation.
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The Nature of Eternity
As new as it is old, as old as it is new.
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The Myth of Origin
Were we made in the image of God? Or the imagination of God?
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A 0.0035 Percent Cosmos
Humans perceive only a very small portion – 0.0035 percent – of the electromagnetic spectrum.
This visible light spectrum, falls between wavelengths of around 380 to 780 nanometers.
The electromagnetic spectrum encompasses much longer and shorter wavelengths,
Including radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays.
In the narcissistic-hedonistic spectrum, however, our little paradigm reigns supreme.
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Rider Through the Storm
There is nothing you are meant to be.
There is nothing you are supposed to be doing.
There is only what you are; there is only what you are not.
There is only this right here, this right now; there is only this moment.
There is only the unfathomable awareness, and firing synapses imagining through it.
The you, this mystery has, in illusion fabricated, is but a make-believe fable.
A tale old by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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Drip … Drip … Drip …
The rigors of life wear all down as water does rocks and mountains.
The quantum matrix is an ever-changing dynamic no mind can halt.
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The Cacophony! The Cacophony!
The sound of silence reigns in a steadfast mind.
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The Nature of a Man
If you want to discern what manner of man you are dealing with,
Put a sword and shield in his hands, and send him out into the arena.
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The Limits of Imagination
The world, the universe, you imagine, has never existed.
All the imagination ever imagined could not grasp the stone-cold reality,
Could not fashion the truth, the awareness, the moment, the right-here-now of eternity,
Through which it has kaleidoscoped since its evolution in consciousness in this ineffable dreamtime.
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The Nature of Detachment
Detachment is not an ideal, nor is it a goal, nor is it a principle.
It is a state, a frame, a quality, a serenity, of mind,
Free of desire, free of fear, free of dread,
Free of any passion, whatsoever.
It is the You, it is the Self,
At the most natural, essential core.
This dream is always in turmoil and conflict.
To amble through it, placidly detached, is the challenge.
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Change or Die, Your Choice
If consciousness, if imagination, if dreamtime,
Wants to survive its illusion-delusion,
If it fancies sticking around,
It had better wise up.
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The Nature of Contentment
Contentment with less is more.
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A Concoction of Imagination
All history is the concoction of imagination.
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You Are What You Eat
Try paying more attention to what you put in your mind-body than how it tastes.
Appeasing the taste buds only goes as far as that wormhole just beyond the tongue.
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A State of Mind
The five senses and mind offer You an entire world and a vast cosmos, in which You are but a speck.
Disregard the senses, still the mind unto its sentience, and You are all of it.
To which quality of mind are You called?
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The Shadow Within
It is not how others think about you that torments you.
It is how you think they think about you that generates all the bother.
You must forgive your Self, you must accept your Self, you must relish your Self,
To be free of all the imaginary suffering of your imaginary mind.
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Embrace the Aloneness
Instead of running from the loneliness, try embracing the aloneness.
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No Owning It
The eternal moment.
It is not yours, it never was yours, it never will be yours.
Yet, You it, all the while.
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A Dreamless Slumber
What is death but falling into a dreamless slumber,
From which You will never awaken in that form again.
Heavens and hells, and reincarnation, are but limited visions,
Misapprehensions, misconceptions, of what is really going on here.
You have never been the mind-body, or any other appearance or attribute.
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The Quantum Sands of Mystery
Through eternal awareness, the mystery of the cosmos plays out.
Evolution is the brush and chisel, and illusion, the means and medium.
Natural selections are the choiceless choices in the ever-kaleidoscoping moment.
It is all written in the quantum sands of time for the eternal witness to wander in every way.
Is there a reason? Is there a purpose? Is there an answer? Is there a deity on high?
No, an ineffable mystery is all it is, all has ever been, all will ever be.
The challenge is not giving way to arrogance and avarice,
For they are the ever-present temptations.
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Just Be You
Just be the breath.
Just be the timeless.
Just be the awareness.
Just be the perception.
Just be the simplicity.
Just be the sentience.
Just be the alertness.
Just be the moment.
Just be the timeless.
Just be the entirety.
Just be the infinity.
Just be the cosmos.
Just be the eternal.
Just be the here.
Just be the now.
Just be You.
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Every Mind Its Own Palette
A simple explanation suits a simple mind.
A moderate explanation suits a moderate mind.
A complex explanation suits a complex mind.
Every mind its own unique illusory palette.
Every mind a universe unto its Self.
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An Idiot’s Tale
The both fascinating and exhausting thing about the human paradigm and its Shakespearian spectacle,
Is how we so often really believe, so many things we have imagined, are real and true and important:
All our geographies.
All our cultures.
All our families.
All our ethnicities.
All our races.
All our languages.
All our traditions.
All our histories.
All our politics.
All our commerce.
All our conflicts.
All our mathematics.
All our sciences.
All our inventions.
All our engineering.
All our industries.
All our technologies.
All our architecture.
All our superstitions.
All our religions.
All our philosophies.
All our music.
All our arts.
All our sports.
All our costumes.
All our narcissism.
All our hedonism.
All our ecstasies.
All our agonies.
Everything we venerate human.
That when gazing out into the infinite starry-starry night, we, who are mere microbes in its vastness,
Truly regard our little spinning dust ball, our pale blue dot, our illusion-packed speck, is at its center.
And that our kind is ordained, by our imagination, to be its most meaningful and purposeful creation.
The joke is on us; we, who are too self-absorbed, too greedy, to rationally grasp the absurdity of it all.
And so, we race, barely a hint of squealing brakes, towards the precipice of our own imaginary creation.
And for whatever life forms prevail after we have extinguished ourselves, it will be as if we never existed.
MacBeth’s summation catches it: ‘A tale old by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’
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The Terror! The Terror!
Religions and cults have risen and fallen with every cultural fusion,
In every geography since our migration erupted from the jungles of old.
They are part of the fabric that holds any mindset to its delusions of grandeur.
It must have been exceedingly terrifying for our ancestors in the way back when,
For us to carry our dread of the mystery to such heights, over and over and over again.
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Problem Solver? Or Problem Maker?
The mind can be a problem solver.
The mind can be a problem maker.
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The Everything of Time
Everything makes time.
Everything takes time.
Everything fakes time.
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The Paradox, the Irony
It is whatever you think it is; it is not whatever you think it is.
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A Gift to Your Self
Unless you have managed to wheedle your way into power and/or fame and/or fortune;
Or have some troll who has found motive to haunt your continuing existence;
Or have family and friends and tribal connections of a clannish sort;
Odds are, all your good and foul deeds, will go largely unnoticed and unpunished.
Anonymity is a gift to your Self, if you have the wit to eschew the delusion of self-importance.
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The Joyful Curmudgeon
Do I sound undeniably, irrevocably, indelibly, indifferently, ineffably, contentedly
– stoical, fatalistic, resigned, doubtful, accepting, skeptical, cynical, pessimistic, philosophical –
Well, duh, yeah, I be a joyful curmudgeon, a soliloquizing witness to the great mystery.
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The Abyss! The Abyss!
A rock is a rock, a cloud is a cloud, an eye is an eye, until they are not.
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The Daily Ascent
Whether miserable or cheerful, whether grousing or whistling,
‘Tis yet another Sisyphean day of pushing that rock up the hill.
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No Contest
How so many opt for a story, for a myth, for an idol,
Over the one and only eternal moment they are,
Is absurdity beyond all comprehension.
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The Choiceless Moment
Yet another timeless moment in the moment,
For the illusion-delusion of free will looking forward,
To kaleidoscope into the illusion-delusion of fate looking back.
What choice is there for any pattern playing out its form,
But the utter choicelessness of natural selection?
The sands of time blow on and on and on,
And eternity, indifferent to all of it.
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Analog Language Adrift in the Digital Age
Clock face
Hour hand
Short hand
Minute hand
Long hand
Second hand
One hour
12 hours
24 hours
60 minutes
60 seconds
60 ticks
O’clock
Five past
Ten past
Quarter past
Twenty past
Twenty-five past
Half past
Twenty-five to
Twenty to
Quarter to
Ten to
Five to
Half-hour
Quarter-hour
Clockwise
Counter-clockwise
AM (Ante Meridiem)
PM (Post Meridiem)
Digital: 7:05
Wording: It's 5 past 7.
Alternative way: It's seven oh five.
Digital: 7:15
Wording: It's quarter past 7.
Alternative way: It's seven fifteen.
Digital: 7:30
Wording: It's half past 7.
Alternative way: It's seven thirty.
Digital: 7:35
Wording: It's 25 to 8.
Alternative way: It's seven thirty-five.
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Nope, Nope, Nope
The eternal moment.
It is not yours.
It never was yours.
It never will be yours.
Suffer your way to nirvana.
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Lost and Gone Forever
Another moment come and gone.
Did you give it your fullest attention,
Or were you off day-dreaming, yet again?
Another recollection, another vague perception,
Lost and gone forever, either way.
So it goes.
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Merrily, Merrily, Life Is but a Dream
No, you did not change your destiny, you did not alter your fate.
It might have seemed like a whole new direction in the epiphany you perceived,
But the big picture reality, is, you only continued wandering down the same sands-of-time path.
The dreamtime, from beginning to end, is free will looking forward, fate looking back.
An old – old being what it is – American folk song, sings it as it is.
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream;
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
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Regarding Jesus
Regarding Jesus.
I get the story; I get the mythology.
I just do not see it the way the popular rendering reads.
It is not ‘the greatest story ever told,’ in this ineffable eternal mystery.
Phenomena that defy natural law, and scientific method and principles, are ludicrous.
There have been many seers, many sages, many thinkers, throughout the world, throughout all histories.
And all are first and last, in their own right; all have a mythology about their awakening.
And none are more real, more true, than any other, despite all assertions.
The significance is in the awakening, not how it came about.
And none can be followed; none need be followed,
But through the earnest seeker’s own solitary walkabout.
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Of Imagination and Awareness
Imagination is the doer, in all that is done, and all that is undone.
And momentary awareness, is but timeless witness,
To the kaleidoscoping quantum matrix.
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The Nature of Responsibility
You cannot be responsible for anyone or anything other than your Self.
And even that can be very troublesome more than several times a day.
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
What a dominant force all our creations, all our manipulations, play in the human paradigm.
From fire and sharpened sticks, to everything we surround ourselves with, to live and work and entertain,
In this our modern industrial-technological, beyond-all-pales, mad-mad-mad, muddle of a world.
And all the clocks and calendars that tick-tick-tick every moment in our dreams of time,
Send us rushing, racing, every which way, throughout all our days and nights.
Ever scurrying to keep up with all the absurdities our minds embrace.
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An Original Work
The one thing you can say about these many philosophical-mystical ponderings
– Agree with them, comprehend them, embrace them, or no –
Is that it is an entirely original work.
Every single aphorism, a sculpting of its own.
Life’s distillation, coupled with an inclination for wordplay,
And a time-sharpened skillset with word processing and its motley widgets.
What will come of it, is unknowable, and of little concern, for process was reward enough.
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Of Human Inspiration
What in any deity’s name is so inspiring about human vanity and greed?
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Of Hell and Heaven
The real hell all must overcome, is the one in their minds.
What is heaven, but the neuron trail, at peace with itself.
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The Quiet Revolution
The inward awakening is a quiet revolution.
When you are free, it is a silent declaration.
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Total Recall
To unlock the conditioned mind, the You, You truly are,
Must grant it your unequivocal, undivided, absolute attention.
You must Descartes-doubt all things, until all doubt discerns its end.
The truth is there for all who have the wit and will to walk the razor’s edge.
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Realign or Die
Grubs that can talk, grubs that can walk, grubs that can do all sorts of amazing things;
Grubs that can imagine, that can pretend, that can make-believe, they are more than grubs;
Grubs that believe they are divinely stamped to be greater than all the other grubs small to large;
Grubs that have the power to manipulate and destroy any lesser grub in any way they wish;
Have a lot to learn about the rules of the game, to get back the reality of the way it is.
Can the gluttonous monkey let go the tasty bait to escape the coconut dilemma?
With natural selection so steeped in its grub algorithm, odds are not good.
Vanity and greed are not proving to be very sustainable strategies.
When it comes to survival, the grubs we call cockroaches,
At least 320 million years ancient, and counting,
Have much more viable genetic coding,
And will very likely continue on,
Long after we are gone.
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The Tiller of Destiny
Whether You never see it,
Whether You see it only once in a while,
Whether You see-hear-touch-taste-smell it all the time,
Why would it be relevant to anyone but You?
Destiny is tiller for every witness.
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A Dream That Never Happened
Your death will be the end of everything.
Your mind-body, your world, your universe.
Everything you have ever thought or said or done.
Everything You have ever created, preserved, destroyed.
The illusory mirage will evaporate, as if it all never happened.
And whatever awareness is, and is not; whatever eternity is, and is not;
Will carry on without any remnant of the imaginary dreamtime,
That You are not, You never were, You will never be.
It is all an extraordinary, ineffable mystery,
And You, but an illusory witness,
Destined to disappear.
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The Absurdity of Irony and Paradox
Right here, right now, this very moment, eternity permeates the core of your beingness,
And you settle for story after story, that have no reality, whatsoever.
The absurdity of irony and paradox reigns supreme.
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The Unfathomable Silence
To be unutterably, unfathomably silent,
Is to disregard, to ignore, the world, the universe,
You every given moment, through imagination, differentiate.
It is a quality of awareness, a quality of attentiveness,
A quality of prior-to-consciousness beingness,
Aligned solely with the eternal moment.
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The Voiceless Voice
Learn to trust intuition’s subtle epiphanies.
It is the voiceless voice of the mystery within.
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And the Point, Again?
What point to judgment, once You see everything the same mystery.
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The Great Deception
The imagination born of mystery,
Enticed me to scribe this, kept me in the game,
That all my tilling would never be known enough to be forgotten.
There is no depth to which irony and paradox, with utmost dexterity, will not sink.
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The Unpretentious Existence
How much more agreeable, how much less disagreeable, an unpretentious existence.
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The Rest of the Pie
If humans only perceive 0.0035 percent of this unfathomable mystery,
That some ivory tower sorts call the electromagnetic spectrum,
What the heck is going on in the other 0.9965 percent?
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Mind’s Hell, Mind’s Heaven
When who becomes what,
When what becomes where,
When where becomes when,
When when becomes why,
When why becomes how,
When how becomes when,
Minds succumb to every hell.
Minds succumb to every heaven.
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Be Mindful, Pilgrim
It only takes one inattentive, one unlucky, one fated moment,
To forever change, forever alter, forever downsize, any given dream.
So, pay attention, Pilgrim; be mindful, if you prefer a less painful existence.
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Naught But a Concoction
You and your world and your cosmos, are nothing more than a concoction of sensory perception.
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All You Really Know
You know a great deal about the world, the cosmos, the quantum illusion, your mind-body perceives,
But about the mystery – the unknowable, the enigmatic, the inexplicable, the inscrutable,
The impenetrable, the indescribable, the unfathomable, the ineffable –
You beyond all doubt, know absolutely nothing.
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The Unambiguous Mind
There is most certainly an intransigent degree of peace,
And contentment and certainty and hope and unassailability,
In the unambiguous, infallible mindset, of an earnest true believer.
The critical thinker must work far harder to achieve,
That sure-footed level of absurdity.
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The Silence of Peace
… peace … peace … peace …
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The Truth of Nothing
Nothing new, nothing old, nothing all the same.
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The Mystery’s Apologist
Who-what-where-when-why-how am I,
But an apologist-defender-supporter-ally-protector-champion-advocator,
For the ineffable mystery of eternity.
For which it never asked.
But did allow.
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The Freedom of This Work
Because it is not being sold or bartered, or fashioned into any sort of cultish following,
This philosophical commentary is free to be however it plays out in this mind,
And will wander out into the dreamtime world of its own merit, or not.
The fate of the human paradigm is already written in the sands,
And it is not for anyone to change even one moment.
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The Ultimate Belief
The only sure thing to believe in, is that there is nothing to believe in.
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Imagination’s Projection
You have never existed.
Imagination imagined that You did,
But that was a projection, to which it is prone.
And You will not die, either.
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No Boundaries Known
What here or there has any reality,
What us or them has any reality,
What truth or lie has any reality,
What thick or thin has any reality,
What high or low has any reality,
What great or small has any reality,
What plus or minus has any reality,
What up or down has any reality,
What alive or dead has any reality,
What black or white has any reality,
What inside or outside has any reality,
In an indivisible matrix that knows no duality.
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Buddha’s Answer to the Pain of Existence
Human existence is a trail of every imaginable ecstasy and agony,
Every passion to which these mortal coils are susceptible.
Buddha’s First Noble truth: Existence is painful.
The second: Unhappiness is caused by selfish craving.
Third: Deliverance from pain is found through non-attachment.
And fourth: The Eightfold Path … Practice wisdom, morality, meditation.
The Eightfold Path
Right views
Right intention
Right speech
Right action
Right livelihood
Right effort
Right mindfulness
Right concentration
The Five Hindrances
Sensuality
Ill-will
Lethargy
Worry
Indecision
Seven Factors of Enlightenment
Mindfulness
Investigation of existence
Persevering effort
Enkindle rapture
Maintain calm
Concentration on right values and things
Equanimity; good grace toward what life has in store
Ten Contemplations
Impermanence
Absence of a permanent self or soul
Profane nature of physical world
Danger or disadvantage
Abandonment
Detachment
Cessation
Distaste for external world
Impermanence of component things
Mindfulness of in-breathing and out-breathing
The Opium of the Masses
Distraction – diversion, recreation, amusement, activity, meaning, purpose – is the opium of the masses.
Whether it be religion or politics or money or news or sports or food or drugs or technology,
Or anything else the human paradigm has conceived to fill its insatiability,
All distractions allow imagination to rule the moment.
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The Vision in Which You Harbor
Imagination is the lock; awareness, the key.
You are as self-absorbed and terrestrial,
Or as Self-absorbed and undying,
As the vision in which you harbor.
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Just Another Lie
Would that I, were as silent, as serene,
As these too many words suggest.
Indeed, I am just another lie,
Babbling about nothing.
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Are You, you? Or Are You, You?
This is your one and only moment.
Are You the space and time imaginary you?
Or are You the spaceless-timeless awareness You?
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One Eye to Rule Them All
There is only one eye, and it is the ineffable mystery of awareness permeating all creation.
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The Mind’s Eye
The paired lobes of the soft nervous tissue immediately behind the skull’s forehead, are the mind’s eye.
The part of the brain concerned with behavior, learning, personality, voluntary movement.
The coordinating epicenter of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.
The quantum storm, electromagnetic grid, Shakespearian player,
Of the human paradigm’s imaginary condition.
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An Imaginary Marathon
Even though space and time are really nothing more than an imaginary constructs
The human mind mindlessly, irrationally, absurdly, races it, from womb to grave.
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A Dreamtime in the Abyss
Space and time are an ever-kaleidoscoping illusion,
In the ineffably spaceless, timeless abyss of eternity.
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The So It Goes of the Ever-Changing
Adaptation is about letting go of things that no longer exist,
And discerning what is really happening in the right-here-right-now.
All simply a matter of doing the good old ‘so it goes’ shrug.
Of dealing with it, of getting over it, of moving on.
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The Dragon of Disquieting Imagination
A streaming state of mind is much easier when you are totally immersed in some worldly activity.
It is when you are all alone, undistracted, that the dragon of disquieting imagination raises its head.
Self-controlled attention to the ever-present, timeless moment, can be a challenging thing to muster.
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No Solution Required
Be content to consider this inexplicable mystery, a mystery that needs no solution.
Nor any of the incalculable absurdities our kind has devised to worship and fear and dread it.
It is the nothing-more-nothing-less, prior-to-consciousness, spaceless-timeless awareness, of all eternity.
You are it, it is You, a wakefulness that pervades all creation, and the abyss in which it frolics.
What more realization, what more insight, what more understanding, is necessary?
The momentary challenge is to be as present, as here now, as possible.
As deeply silent as the mind allows in any given moment.
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The Only Resolution
Still working all that blather in your head out? All that mind-body conditioning.
All that crap that rolodexes round and round like a rat on a rat wheel,
Regurgitating over and over and over and over and …
Well, silence is the only resolution.
And that takes some very resolute attention.
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The Smoke of Sanity
Imaginary as the human paradigm is, all come up with their own unique way,
To keep their mindset, their attitude, their conviction, their headset,
In one dimension of balance, of centered-ness, or another.
Obviously, some are much better at it than others.
So-called sanity is about being somewhat functional,
In whatever absurdity is playing out in the given theater.
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The Metaphors! The Metaphors!
God did not kick us out of the Garden; it was a voluntary departure, a voluntary quit.
A cloaking of, a blindness to, a denial of, the instinctual nature, the instinctual patterning.
Brought on by imagination’s fabrication of knowledge, its embracing of knowledge.
Any creation story, no matter how redeeming, is nothing more than a metaphor.
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The Beholder’s Eye
What is this ephemeral trait called beauty, but an ever-distracting promise of something,
That does not, has never, will never, exist, but in the eye of one beholder or another.
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The Finger-Wagging of Ethics
The Ancient Greeks made a big thing of ethics way back when,
And we have been wagging our fingers at each other ever since.
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The Nth Degree
Anything can be rationalized to one nth degree or another.
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The Ghosts of History
The ghosts of history swirl in every mind.
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The Comprehension of History
It is challenging to understand, to grasp, the nature of history,
Until you have at least a modicum of it in your frame of reference.
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The Good Student
Pain is the teacher, and it is the rare student that does not require more than a few whippings.
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Ethics: For Those Not in the Game
Ethics is the forum pastime of those who are not in the Game of Thrones.
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power,
While the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
Thucydides (c. 460 – c. 400 BC)
Athenian historian and general
History of the Peloponnesian War
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
By the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Seneca (4 BC – AD 65)
Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome
Statesman, dramatist, satirist
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No Fate the Same
Some conquer the world.
Some conquer themselves.
Some follow one or the other.
Some perch on couches or barstools.
And the rest do, whatever they do, as they can.
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The Insatiable Mind
The five senses are extensions of the mind, and it is insatiable.
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The Tiller of the Mystery
Natural selection is the tiller of the mystery, the ferryman of destiny, the harbinger of fate.
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The Silence of Eternity
To comprehend what You truly are, have always been, will ever be,
You must unwrap the mind into a totality, so vast, so empty, as to be unfathomably incomprehensible.
It is the You, You are, before all befores, after all afters, and during all durings.
The unutterable silence of eternity is deafening.
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Goals v. Process
Another timebound goal come and gone, and timeless process ever the same.
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The Dreamtime of Mind
You are not anything that you pretend to be,
You are not anything that you imagine your Self to be.
The human paradigm is nothing more than Shakespearian theater,
Being played in the imaginary dreamtime of your mind.
Something spun from nothing is still nothing.
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Idolatry v. Realization
Idolatry is much easier than realization.
Worshipping an idol, a symbol, an idea, is far simpler,
Than effortlessly being what You are, have ever been, will ever be,
In this bogglingly ineffable magical mystery theater.
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A Window Like No Other
My brief existence managed to land in a zone, in a time, in an abundance of entitlement,
The masses have never experienced in all human history, and obviously never will again.
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The Pointlessness! The Pointlessness!
How utterly pointless it is to debate the way it is.
How utterly pointless to use words, to use vibrations given concept,
To argue over mystery that cannot be proven, a mystery that does not require sanction,
From the denizens of a paradigm rooted in absurdity, that is but an illusion,
Playing out in an ineffable mystery that is prior to consciousness.
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The Usurper’s Trek
Self-importance is a long and winding Yellow Brick Road.
A twisting, turning, entangling, bottomless rabbit hole,
Down which imagination, the usurper, easily treks.
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The Soundless Silence
Silence.
Even thinking of it.
Even trying to attain it.
Even trying to be it,
Denies it.
As Minch Yoda astutely said to Luke Skywalker:
No. Try not. Do ... or do not. There is no try.
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You Are It, and It, You
Religions are merely riders of consciousness,
Filled with every delusion imagination can imagine.
And consciousness, but a cloud in the vastness of awareness.
And awareness, an ineffable mystery, which can never be fathomed.
Be tranquil in that mystery, and know You are it, and it, You.
What need for any other, when eternity is ascertained.
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One Step at a Time
You cannot take the second step, until you have taken the first.
You cannot take the third step, until you have taken the second.
You cannot take the fourth step, until you have taken the third.
You cannot take the fifth step, until you have taken the fourth.
You cannot take the sixth step, until you have taken the fifth.
You cannot take the seventh step, until you have taken the sixth.
And You cannot take the last step, until you have taken all prior.
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Eternity’s Dictation
This opus has been created,
One thought at a time,
One breath at a time,
One drop at a time,
One ounce at a time,
One note at a time,
One fragment at a time,
One crumb at a time,
One dot at a time,
One degree at a time,
One iota at a time,
One fleck at a time,
One jot at a time,
One grain at a time,
One bit at a time,
One brick at a time,
One step at a time,
One splash at a time,
One dash at a time,
One speck at a time,
One dab at a time,
One scrap at a time,
One itty at a time,
One bitty at a time,
One particle at a time,
One point at a time,
One smidgeon at a time,
As the eternal moment dictated.
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The Blue Pill Path
Far less taxing to dutifully, naively, sit in pews, and pay a mandatory tithing,
And do whatever sacraments, whatever obligations, the self-ordained ecclesiastics decree;
To study so-called holy scriptures, and repeatedly discuss and debate unutterably pointless absurdities;
To bow and scrape to imaginary deities; to beg for blessings and mercy from imaginary idols;
Than it is to earnestly, profoundly, explore and inquire for your Self, by your Self,
Into an unfathomable, indelible mystery, that can never be known.
A mystery, You are, have ever been, will ever be.
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Everything the Same Mystery
All groupthink aside, see it or not, accept it or not,
Everything across the universe is the same mystery,
None greater, none lesser, in any way or shape or form.
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How Small the Human Mind
What is enlightenment? Does such a thing even exist?
And is it really anything but a never-ending awakening,
To how immense, how unfathomable, a mystery it truly is,
And how infinitesimally small humankind inevitably makes it.
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Mystery’s Nature
Nature is the unfathomable mystery’s expression.
The world is nature, the cosmos is nature, the mind-body is nature.
The world is the mystery, the cosmos is the mystery, the mind-body is the mystery.
And scientific method is the most rational means to investigate this kaleidoscoping quantum mirage.
To consider yourself separate from the world, separate from the cosmos,
Is the ever-ironical-paradoxical, absurd fallacy of imagination.
All demarcation, is illusion-delusion of the first order.
And the awareness You are, witness to it all.
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Place Your Bets, Ladies and Gentlemen
Were they ever to be known, there would be many who would quarrel with these myriad thoughts.
Some would probably be inclined to kill or torture me for my blasphemy against their imaginary deity.
And to all, I can only say, as can they to me: prove me wrong; a task the mystery does not allow.
And so, we wallow in our illusory minds, ever alone, imagining every variety of delusion.
And if they are right, we will all be cast into whatever it is they so ardently believe.
And if I am right, we will all disappear back into the unborn-undying abyss.
So, will I awaken in some heaven or some hell, or return to oblivion?
Hopefully, the latter, as one life was one more than I would have ever sought.
Didn’t ask to be here; ain’t prayin’ to be stayin’ … is in my roster of standard ripostes.
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Suicide Is Painless, It Brings on Many Changes
Would you endure all the pain and bother of your brief mortal existence,
If you were strapped to a table, and someone else was inflicting it?
Why wait for a declining body to make the inevitable decision?
Why put family and friends and acquaintances, or yourself,
Though having to deal with all your endgame suffering?
Give them the blessing of their own time and your treasures.
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The Promise of Tomorrow
How can you promise any tomorrow, when you are not yet there to answer for it?
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The Analog Mind’s Wander Down the Dead-End Road
The human mind evolved in an analog garden world entirely based on a timeless relationship with nature.
Measured time – sundials, clocks, calendars – has altered the mind’s relationship with the moment.
And the digitalization of the analog brain has ferried the entire world down a dead-end road.
The Planet of the Apes is ratcheting up at a crescendo pace for the unescapable Big Fall.
Every species goes extinct sooner or later, and there is no telling how close or far that moment is,
For the end of all the vanity and greed, all the endless horrors, we have fit into our relatively brief wander.
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The Mystery’s Trickster
How is it so few question the deep-seated assumption,
That imagination is tangible, that it is an instrument of substance.
How is it so few have any doubt, that everything imagination has imagined;
Everything perceived by the mind; everything the senses see, hear, taste, smell, touch;
Is nothing more than an evolutionary quirk, nothing more than an illusion-delusion of consciousness.
The underlying – assumption, falsehood, fabrication, invention, fallacy, mendacity –
Is that imagination is more than the mystery’s ephemeral trickster,
And the rare who discern it, stand very much alone.
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Fate’s Unfolding Moment
The challenge with destiny is not knowing what it is,
And having to play it out one moment at a time,
In whatever way natural selection ordains.
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Where Doubt Ends
Doubt until there is nothing left to doubt.
Forget until there is nothing left to remember.
Timeless, ageless, changeless, immutable awareness,
Is all there truly is, all there truly is not.
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Ahooga! Ahooga! Ahooga!
Ahooga! Ahooga!
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
Speculation alert! Speculation alert! Speculation alert!
Theories and conjectures being formed and launched without firm evidence!
Speculation alert! Speculation alert! Speculation alert!
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
Ahooga! Ahooga!
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The Wall of Futility
How delusional of any seer to think,
Philosophical-mystical thoughts are ever potent enough,
To make any deep impact on imagination’s wheel of creation and destruction.
History churns on and on, and any who believe they can more than slightly nudge it this way or that,
Are sooner or later crushed by the realization of the unutterable pointlessness of it all.
Narcissism and hedonism are at the helm of the humanoid paradigm,
And they will not be undone by any rational soliloquy.
Any attempt only proves the point.
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The Ultimate You
In the ultimate aloneness, You are.
In the ultimate singularity, You are.
In the ultimate entirety, You are.
In the ultimate indivisible, You are.
In the ultimate infinity, You are.
In the ultimate infinitesimal, You are.
In the ultimate ineffable, You are.
In the ultimate indelible, You are.
In the ultimate mystery, You are.
In the ultimate absolute, You are.
In the ultimate detachment, You are.
In the ultimate intangible, You are.
In the ultimate spaceless, You are.
In the ultimate timeless, You are.
In the ultimate awareness, You are.
In the ultimate serenity, You are.
In the ultimate silence, You are.
In the ultimate emptiness, You are.
In the ultimate fullness, You are.
In the ultimate pointless, You are.
In the ultimate unfathomable, You are.
In the ultimate unborn-undying, You are.
In the ultimate omnipresence, You are.
In the ultimate omniscience, You are.
In the ultimate omnipotence, You are.
Only your attachment to your mind-body, your world, your cosmos, limit your vision.
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Everyone’s a Critic
So many of our two-legged genetic predisposition, perhaps all, rapidly or gradually transform into critics
– Detractors, opponents, enemies, censors, criticizers, faultfinders, knockers, decriers, denigrators –
As if all our judgments mean anything in the grand scheme of all things ineffably indivisible.
As if all our judgments are anything more than insignificant monkey-mind squabbling.
To not cast the first stone is a feat, of which few are capable, much less willing.
To be truly all-accepting, would indeed require, an incredible realization.
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Shut the Fuck Up
When it comes to defining this mystery,
Claim anything, maintain anything, argue anything,
And you will always be wrongo-bongo.
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Just Another Day
Just another day for all the retired, generally tired folk.
Not much need for clocks or calendars at that juncture of the game.
You eats when you are hungry, sleeps when you are tired,
And putters about in the moment between.
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Parochial v. Cosmopolitan
The parochial mind is one having a limited or narrow outlook or scope.
A cosmopolitan mind is familiar with, at ease, in many different countries and cultures.
Provincial, conventional, limited, restricted, narrow-minded, unsophisticated, short-sighted, close-minded, Narrow-minded, inward-looking, naïve, insular, myopic, blinkered, hidebound, jerkwater, petty.
Versus, broad-minded, unprejudiced, tolerant, knowing, aware, seasoned, liberal,
Expansive, sophisticated, experienced, worldwide, global, universal.
There is a spectrum, of course, for we are all ultimately,
The same narcissistic, hedonistic primate,
We were in the jungles of old.
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Need We Ask Anyone to Tell Us These Things?
What is grub, and what is not grub? Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
The first and last irrational assumption, is that this imaginary you, truly exists.
From the greatest heights to the darkest depths, the brain is imagination’s tool.
All life forms wander same stage in different universes, in different perceptions.
No destiny endures forever; every strand of genetic coding only plays out so long.
There is nothing to want, nothing to dread; it is only a mind-body; it is only a dream.
To be the ineffable eternal moment, is to be what You truly are, what You truly are not.
This is your moment. Are You the imaginary you? Or are You the awareness You?
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The Frankenstein Mind
What relationship, what bond, can a digitalized mind have,
With the analog universe from which it materialized?
How will the natural world manage to hold out?
How will it survive so much obliviousness,
Of the implacable rubrics of the game?
How will it endure a mutant mind,
No analog garden can forever sustain.
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A Mysterious Abyss
What is this ineffable mystery, but an abyss,
Through which creation and destruction frolic.
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No Matter What
The point is not whether you are a flawless ethical being.
The point is that you are immaculate, no matter your moral character.
No matter your ethnicity, your tribe, your mind-body, your gender, your anything.
You are that which is timeless, spaceless, indivisible, unknowable, indescribable, unfathomable.
To believe otherwise, is to live the falsehood, the deception, of dualistic notion.
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The Algorithm of Genesis
The apparent reality is that the human paradigm will never get past its irrational nature.
Scientific Method has made intrepid efforts in every Ivory Tower domain it could,
But the genetic source code, percolating since creation, cannot be rewritten.
It is the Planet of the Apes, to whatever dystopian end the Fates have ordained.
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And There You Are … Bam!
Gaze at the farthest star your mortal eyes can muster.
Close your mind, open your inner eye, and there You are.
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Just Another Primate
My limitations are many and not far between.
Yes, I too, am just another earthly primate mind-body,
Trying to survive, to endure, yet another day.
Are all these writings anything more,
Than therapeutic yammer?
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A Beyond-All-Pales Absurdity
That you take your imaginary self
– The mind, the body, the world, the universe –
So seriously, as to suffer so much ecstasy, so much agony,
Is but an exceedingly, beyond-all-pales absurdity.
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The Fogbound Miasma of Duality
Duality is the – miasma, mist, fog, haze, cloud, murk, pall, film – of consciousness.
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Process Always Trumps Goal
It is the timeless process that is important; the goal, a momentary pfft of it.
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Complexity v. Simplicity
So much complexity about something so simple.
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Dreamweaver
Conditioning is the weaver of all dreams.
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The Futility! The Futility!
Another timeless day of tap-tap-tapping out,
Paradoxical ironies and ironical paradoxes,
For a readership who will never read them.
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Time to Cut All Ties
Perhaps it is time to realize, just how alone, You truly are.
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Be an Empty Sky
Let your mind, let your spirit, be as empty, as vacant, as void, as the sky.
Dispel all thoughts of your imaginary self; become the timeless awareness.
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The Maha Mauna (Great Silence)
Clearly discerning the right-here-right-now eternal moment’s mystery for what it is,
Is not a matter of belief, not something that can be rhetorically jousted.
It is plainly, it is simply, it is forthrightly, a Self-realization,
And the greatest of doubts is required to fathom it.
And one either has the doubt, or does not.
Either has the resolve, or does not.
Either has the grit, the gumption, or does not.
Either surrenders to eternity’s silent calling, or does not.
And whoever imparts the awareness, can do no more than point it out,
And serenely meander on, very much alone, in the maha mauna of his own dreamtime.
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The Cosmos and You
Are You experiencing the cosmos, or is the cosmos experiencing you?
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When Doubt Grows Wings
Remember this work if your doubt ever grows wings.
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The Crunchy-Chewy-Gooey Seeds of Existence
How amazing is it, that you, with all your trials and tribulations, all your ecstasies and agonies,
Began your existential sojourn when the slimy ejaculate from your father’s testicles,
Surrounded a lone egg from your mother’s ovaries, and one random sperm,
In an epic king-of-the-mountain match, managed to worm its way,
And combine the genetic coding from both their lineages,
And there, in the womb’s dark, blissful abyss,
You slowly baked for nine months,
Before being evacuated through a worm hole,
Into a dreamtime no one asks for, yet many find onerous to depart.
And here you are, in world full of sentient goo, all playing every imaginable inexorable fate.
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The Fruit of the Garden
How tranquil the minds of our ancestors must have been,
Before imagination usurped the timeless awareness,
And shaped a world corrupted by self-interest.
Before imagination plucked the fruit of the garden,
And gradually spun knowledge into the massive leviathan,
That we, with little caution, spur on, in the given modern moment.
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A Free and Clear Mystery
The mystery is free and clear.
You need not fear it.
You need not tithe it.
You need not name it.
You need not hype it.
You need not follow it.
You need not prove it.
You need not believe it.
You need not pray to it.
You need not sanction it.
You need not worship it.
You need not scrutinize it.
You need not suffer for it.
You need not join any cult.
You need not deny anything.
You need not struggle with it.
You need not accept anything.
You need not bear any dogma.
You need not recite any mantra.
You need not speculate about it.
You need not seek any sideshows.
You need not imagine any divinity.
You need not plead for forgiveness.
You need not dress any special way.
You need not behave any certain way.
You need not meander any certain path.
All you need do, is be its eternal moment.
You are it, and it is You.
Namaste.
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The Nature of Contentment
The departing challenge for all, in this ineffable quantum dreamtime theater
– All the effort, all the suffering, it has taken to persevere the long and winding journey –
Is to be content, to be satisfied, with whatever you have done, with whatever you have not done.
contentment | kənˈtentmənt |
noun
a state of happiness and satisfaction.
contentedness, content, satisfaction, fulfillment; happiness, pleasure, cheerfulness, gratification,
gladness; ease, comfort, restfulness, well-being, peace, equanimity, serenity,
tranquility, placidity, placidness, repletion, complacency.
Are you?
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The Truth of Intelligence
The intelligent designer and the intelligent designee, are one in the same.
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In the Once Upon a Time
Older than the stars, younger than the moment,
Unborn, undying, You are, You are,
In the once upon a time.
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Nothing Ever the Same
What is there, what can there be,
But what one thinks it, believes it, imagines it.
And no vision, no mind, no world, no cosmos, ever the same.
Every sentient being, small to large; all of the same aloneness, for all eternity.
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Imagination’s Tool
From the greatest heights to the darkest depths, the brain is imagination’s tool.
The mind can be a problem solver; the mind can be a problem maker.
How imagination uses You, is just another tale quickly done.
A fiction, to which You are witness, as wit allows.
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The Nature of the Buddha Mind
The Buddha mind is a liberated mind.
The Buddha mind is an empty mind.
The Buddha mind is an unconditional mind.
The Buddha mind is a still mind.
The Buddha mind is a seamless mind.
The Buddha mind is a free mind.
The Buddha mind is an attentive mind.
The Buddha mind is an acute mind.
The Buddha mind is an aware mind.
The Buddha mind is a composed mind.
The Buddha mind is an absolute mind.
The Buddha mind is a boundless mind.
The Buddha mind is an immeasurable mind.
The Buddha mind is a limitless mind.
The Buddha mind is an infinite mind.
The Buddha mind is an infinitesimal mind.
The Buddha mind is a unified mind.
The Buddha mind is an aimless mind.
The Buddha mind is a timeless mind.
The Buddha mind is a serene mind.
The Buddha mind is a sovereign mind.
The Buddha mind is an empty mind.
The Buddha mind is a no-mind mind.
The Buddha mind is an unoccupied mind.
The Buddha mind is a pointless mind.
The Buddha mind is a spaceless mind.
The Buddha mind is a peaceful mind.
The Buddha mind is a matchless mind.
The Buddha mind is a meaningless mind.
The Buddha mind is the cosmic mind.
The Buddha mind is a mind immersed in eternity.
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The Absoluteness You Are
You, all alone, before dreamtime began, after dreamtime ends, and all the dreamtime between.
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The Entitlement of Imagination
Human primates imagine themselves highborn and deserving,
But what nobility is there in narcissism and hedonism?
What nobility is there in arrogance and avarice?
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The Idolatry of Imagination
All human religion is the idolatry of imagination.
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Mammon Rules
The Ocean of Consumption
The Mountain of Consumption
The Forest of Consumption
The River of Consumption
The Valley of Consumption
The Desert of Consumption
The Oasis of Consumption
The Hill of Consumption
The Marsh of Consumption
The Canyon of Consumption
The Glacier of Consumption
The Swamp of Consumption
The Tundra of Consumption
The Plateau of Consumption
Whatever the metaphor, Mammon rules,
Those who cannot restrain their narcissistic-hedonistic bent.
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The Challenge of Detachment
All have their own interpretation, their own construct, of everything.
Every mind, every sensory set – eyes, ears, nose, tongue, nerve-ridden flesh – is entirely unique.
Hard not to get drawn into believing it all real, when you are playing it all real.
Hard to remain detached, when your world draws you so.
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For Every Ever
A quantum mind-body synced with a quantum world,
A quantum cosmos, a quantum mystery, a quantum illusion.
Witnessed by You, ever present, unborn, undying, eternally alone.
For every ever, sentience; for every ever, consciousness;
For every ever, imagination, manages to endure.
It is but a dream to play as best you can.
Hopefully, it is not a nightmare.
At least, not too often.
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Best Friend, Worst Enemy
The mind-body can be its own best friend.
The mind-body can be its own worst enemy.
And imagination, the surreal trickster of either.
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The Rippling of Destiny
You can never know the impact your thoughts and deeds have on others.
As the ripples that have impacted you, have shaped your world,
Whatever you say and do, radiates who knows where.
How large or small, is a matter of destiny.
Upon how large, how small,
The allotted role in the genetic lottery.
To believe there is choice, free will, is utter fallacy.
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The Human Lineage
Your ancestors were monkeys.
And before that, they were shrews.
And before that, they were protozoa.
And before that, they were molecules.
And before that, they were radiation.
And before that, they were ether.
And before that, they were You.
As if, before and after, have any reality.
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The Cosmic Deception
The entire cosmos is an illusion, as is the mind that perceives it.
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Truth Can Never Be a Lie
Just because someone conveyed a lie, and spread it far and wide, has never made it true.
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Sundry Mix ‘n Match
That Which Is God
Yet another attempt to communicate what the sound/word/concept ‘God’ herein means.
No, not some unshaven Saint Nick, leading an orchestration of harps in the cloudy on-high.
No, to every idol, every faith, every belief, every creed, every symbol, every charismatic leader.
Yes, to every quantum particle to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, and beyond, including, yes, You.
All that is seen, all that is unseen, is of the same indelible, indivisible, unfathomable mystery.
To envision it any less, is the same delusion repeated throughout the human paradigm.
And all that is required to perceive this non-dualistic truth, is an attentive mind.
A mind that has clearly realized, that eternity is this ever-present moment.
This timeless, unborn-undying, prior-to-consciousness awareness.
And no fiction born of imagination is required to access it.
The Blind Men and an Elephant
by John Godfrey Saxe
I.
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
II.
The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
"God bless me! – but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!"
III.
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried: "Ho! – what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me 't is mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!"
IV.
The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a snake!"
V.
The Fourth reached out his eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
"What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain," quoth he;
"'T is clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!"
VI.
The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: "E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!"
VII.
The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a rope!"
VIII.
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!
Moral
So, oft in theologic wars
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!
This Is It
by Nathan Gill
This Is It. This is all there is – life appearing as an endless display of changing images, with no inherent purpose other than this appearance itself. There is simply life with no one living it.
For no reason at all life is at play with its own imagery, roving as attention, engaging in a mesmerizing game of hide and seek which arises as a sense of separation with an integral urge to wholeness. Life restlessly seeks, yearning for itself. The seeking is the restlessness. This play of worldly existence is imbued with life’s haunted longing for itself, seeking but never finding within the imagery in which it seeks. What is sought all along is this in which the seeking is playing out.
In life’s play as humanity, thought assumes an exaggerated importance as attention spins effortlessly into myriad longings and desires, epitomized by the idea of seeking fulfillment through enlightenment. Reading texts, asking questions, surfing the internet, going on retreat, gurus, teachers, non-teachers, practice, no practice – any or all of it is possible but none of it is necessary as in actuality nothing needs to be discovered, understood, let go of or transcended. Life already is, and recognition of itself in the form of enlightenment, liberation, nirvana, et cetera, is superfluous, merely another happening in the endless now of appearances in the play of life.
Nothing other than the configuration of life as it is now appearing is possible. All is happening exactly as it’s ‘meant’ to. If separation and seeking are the case, then this is it. If recognition and resting are the case, then this is it. Whatever is now – however ordinary or extraordinary – is it.
Seen in clarity, life appears as a great play. You – Consciousness – play all the roles and it is part of the play that You usually play the roles without knowing Your real identity. But sometimes, as part of the show, there is recognition of Your true nature. When there is involvement as a character in the play without recognition of Your true nature the role is taken seriously and all the dramas of life seemingly appear from this. If a role is played where there is recognition of Your true nature, the play is seen for what it is. When Your true nature becomes obvious, the character doesn’t disappear in a flash of light, nor put on ochre robes and have disciples, nor teach ‘spiritual’ truths – although any of these is possible, depending on the pattern of the character’s role in the play. The character will likely appear as he or she did before recognition. The character is likely to continue to lead what is an ordinary life in the play. It is not even necessary for the character to tell anyone or communicate what is now obvious. The whole play has no purpose or point beyond present appearance. It is Your cosmic entertainment. You are Your play. It has no existence separate from You.
The Fate of Authorship
The goal of any writer is to plant something in other minds that will not be easily forgotten.
Who knows how many works are in used book stores and landfills,
And internet websites and burn piles,
And ancient libraries long ago fallen into ruin,
That never or barely even got a chance to be remembered.
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Solitary Witness
From birth to death, the unborn-undying awareness that I am,
Is solitary witness to an ever-kaleidoscoping, mystery-ridden dreamtime.
There is nothing I need do, nothing I can do, but whatever the given moment beckons,
From the patterning of the mind-body, in which I am cloaked,
Upon the stage, which I impromptu play.
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The Anarchist
Am I not something of an anarchist, taking on consciousness, taking on imagination,
With aphorisms the weapon, with which the dreamtime has equipped me.
Taking aim at intellects scouted in any given daily walkabout.
A reasonable pastime, for which I am well-suited.
A Johnny Appleseed strategy at the helm.
Very grass-rooted, very under-the-radar.
What future awakening they might inspire, if any,
Is well beyond this narrative, and well beyond any concern.
It is but the vanity, for which I have been, through happenstance, fated.
A mind-body, programmed by the given nature-nurture, with a truth-seeking inclination.
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Evolution of The Stillness Before Time
A timeline of phases in this little raison d'être project that began in 1989.
Ojai
Teaching at Oak Grove School in Ojai, California
Head and neck injury at Carpinteria State Beach on school fieldtrip
Psilocybin mushrooms & ecstasy
Nisargadatta’s “I Am That”
The first index cards, tossed after Lena’s comment
Chico
A box of spiral-bound notebooks
Access to a desktop computer at Chico Hedway
Dean Evans and two art shows
A book agent who had me put together The Stillness Before Time
Including: Of the Human Journey, Got God?, Ten Reflections, Books, Movies
Kinko’s and who knows how many spiral-bound copies out the back door
Arcata
More spiral-bound notebooks
CLAD certificate program at Humboldt State
First Apple PowerBook 5300 laptop
HTML programming class
Creation of The Stillness Before Time website
Turlock
Switch to index cards
Creative Alternatives and transfer of website
Five generations of Apple MacBook laptops through the years
Several attempts to publish, with support from Dawn Eden Fletcher and Ram Dass
The Return to Wonder
Matrix algorithm experiment
Google Blogger
Twitter/X
The Ponderings of Yaj Ekim
Breadcrumbs series
Lulu Press
Retirement from Creative Alternatives
Transfer of website to Network Solutions
Evolution of website
A variety of offshoot titles
Sivana East
Transfer of website to Skystra
Switch from index cards to smart phone texting
Editing of Stillness, Ponderings, Return to Wonder
The quest for a legacy caretaker
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Just a Clarification
Just a clarification that some titles are original works, and some are selections from the originals.
Please note, dear reader, that nothing is complete, nothing is finished, until the last wheezing breath.
And that the most recent, most accurate edits, will be the PDF versions uploaded to the website.
The Original Works
The Stillness Before Time,
Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner
Including:
Of the Human Journey
Got God?
Ten Reflections
The Ponderings of Yaj Ekim
The Breadcrumbs Compendium
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Breadcrumbs 2015
Breadcrumbs 2018
Breadcrumbs 2019
Breadcrumbs 2020
Breadcrumbs 2021
Breadcrumbs 2022
Breadcrumbs 2023 & Beyond
The Return to Wonder
Field Notes from the Unknown
The Sidebar Collection
A Short List of Books for the Up and Coming
Some Written Works That May Help Get the Young Up to Speed
Conversations
A Variety of Letters, Emails, Texts, & Sundry Odds ‘n Ends
Definitions
An Incomplete Selection of Contemplative Definitions
Ditties for the Bluegrass Pyre
Jester Amok
My (Not Quite) Haiku
Once Upon a Christmas
Possible Last Words & Epitaphs
Sketches of the Once Upon a Time
A Few Epiphanies and Other Hallmark Moments
Spam Responses (a.k.a., WTF Is This Shit!?)
The Corollaries of Yaj Ekim
The Standard Ripostes
The Scribe’s Go-to Responses to This and That in the Day-To-Day
Uncle Sam Says
The titles below are selections drawn from the original works above, based on the premise of the title.
Several will very likely still be ‘under construction’ if the Reaper arrives ahead of sketch.
So … anyone who might be motivated, is welcome to fill in any-and-all gaps,
Being as mindful as possible, to hold fast to the given formatting.
There may or may not be someone to answer inquiries,
At the mjholshouser@gmail.com address.
The Derivative Collection
Aftershocks Autumn 2024
Frames of Reference
Peering Through the Windows of Perception
Imagination: The Great Usurper
Jesus on Prophets
What Any Seer Likely Faces Returning to the Cave of Origin
Lost in Translation
The Human Paradigm’s Linguistic Muddle
Michael’s Rabbit Hole
A Selection of Breadcrumbs & Other Aphorisms
Of Meaning and Purpose
Ponderings About the Futility of It All
Of Noise & Silence
Contemplations on the Vibrations of Consciousness
Standouts From the Return to Wonder Edit
Selections From the First Sixteen Chapters
The Call of the Eternal
A Conversation With My Self
The Gordian Knot of Ethical Thinking
The ‘And More’ Collection
Doubt, Doubt & More Doubt
Grubs, Grubs & More Grubs
(a.k.a., Blobs, Blobs & More Blobs)
History, History & More History
Imagination, Imagination & More Imagination
Mystery, Mystery & More Mystery
Patterns, Patterns & More Patterns
Reincarnation, Reincarnation & More Reincarnation
Science, Science & More Science
Titles, Titles & More Titles
Even More Titles, Titles & More Titles
The Singles Collection
59 Moments to The Way It Is (And Is Not)
Of the Human Journey
Along with ‘Got God?’ and ‘Ten Reflections’
The Mystery of the Mystery
The Real is Discovering
To Be, or Not to Be
Who Was the First?
Breadcrumbs 2023 & Beyond
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Another Way of Putting It
Almost everything written since 1989, probably in the neighborhood of five or six thousand pages at this writing, has been transcribed in MS Word format in the Times New Roman font, and is divided into ten main titles: The Stillness Before Time, The Ponderings of Yaj Ekim, The Return to Wonder, and Breadcrumbs 2015 through 2023. Other titles are sidebar original works or derivatives that came to the a-puttering mind in the hither-thither. There are many incomplete and need-editing works in the derivative list.
The Original Works
The Stillness Before Time,
Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner
Including:
Of the Human Journey
Got God?
Ten Reflections
The Ponderings of Yaj Ekim
The Breadcrumbs Compendium
Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time
Breadcrumbs 2015
Breadcrumbs 2018
Breadcrumbs 2019
Breadcrumbs 2020
Breadcrumbs 2021
Breadcrumbs 2022
Breadcrumbs 2023 & Beyond
The Return to Wonder
The Sidebar Collection
A Short List of Books for the Up and Coming
Conversations
Definitions
Ditties for the Bluegrass Pyre
Jester Amok
My (Not Quite) Haiku
Once Upon a Christmas
Possible Last Words & Epitaphs
Sketches of the Once Upon a Time
Spam Responses (a.k.a., WTF Is This Shit!?)
The Corollaries of Yaj Ekim
The Standard Ripostes
Uncle Sam Says
The Derivative Collection
Aftershocks Autumn 2024
Frames of Reference
Imagination: The Great Usurper
Jesus on Prophets
Lost in Translation
Michael’s Rabbit Hole
Of Meaning and Purpose
Of Noise & Silence
Standouts From the Return to Wonder Edit
The Call of the Eternal
The Gordian Knot of Ethical Thinking
The ‘And More’ Collection
Doubt, Doubt & More Doubt
Grubs, Grubs & More Grubs (a.k.a., Blobs, Blobs & More Blobs)
History, History & More History
Imagination, Imagination & More Imagination
Mystery, Mystery & More Mystery
Patterns, Patterns & More Patterns
Reincarnation, Reincarnation & More Reincarnation
Science, Science & More Science
Titles, Titles & More Titles
Even More Titles, Titles & More Titles
The Singles Collection
59 Moments to The Way It Is (And Is Not)
Of the Human Journey
The Mystery of the Mystery
The Real is Discovering
To Be, or Not to Be
Who Was the First?
Breadcrumbs 2024 & Beyond
A Few Ditties on Process
Breadcrumbs 2023
No, this existence has not been all about talking and writing all this babble.
There were many mornings sipping bean at coffee shops, and nights curled up with popcorn and Netflix,
And wanders here and there, witnessing, exploring, participating, in oh-so-many ways.
Wisdom is far more than sitting on a zafu, staring at a blank wall,
Though that may well be a hearty slice of it,
And ultimately, all of it.
* * * *
No one is ever going to read all this yada yada babble besides me,
Few are ever going to really even begin to grasp, all that I have offered the world.
So, the question becomes, whether or not, it is a good idea for anyone to even dip more than a tippy-toe.
But, if there ever is enough interest for there to be group discussions on this body of work,
Be sure no one is in charge, as anything more than a mild facilitating role.
Circular seating, all at the same eye-level, is recommended.
No proselytization, no dogma, no bullshit.
Read it as clearly as possible.
Stay as clear as possible.
It is not about the scribe.
It is a discussion, not a sermon.
And do not hesitate just to sit in silence.
It is, after all is said and done, a solitary journey.
* * * *
All the copyrights to this collection of titles are a cultural formality,
Which need mean nothing to whatever the future of this scarred garden’s dreamtime has in store.
Do with these many ponderings, these many ramblings, whatever You will,
Or ignore them entirely, and likely be no less happy for it.
* * * *
I pipe dream this largely aphoristic body of work will someday be known,
And my name on some marquee, these thoughts the focus of symposiums across the world,
But let’s face it, folks, with all the babbleon that’s already out there,
That just ain’t ever never going to happen.
So it goes.
* * * *
Fortunately, power and fame and fortune have evaded me.
Vulnerability, anonymity, austerity, and the mindfulness they engender,
Are a great gift in this insane asylum, this théâtre de l’absurde.
* * * *
I do not need anything from You.
I offer You these insights free of all claims.
I do not hunger for your treasures, or your approval.
I do not aspire to ever meet You, or hear your imaginary story.
You are free to go your own way, find your own way,
And do with these thoughts, whatever You will.
* * * *
Has this lifetime of philosophizing, in any way,
Transformed the patterning of this temporal mind-body?
Not that I have, in any way, any shape, any form, ever once witnessed.
Destiny is destiny, fate is fate, fortune is fortune, upshot is upshot, kismet is kismet,
No matter how it is chiseled in stone in the sands of time.
* * * *
In creating this Sisyphean opus, mustered from a hard-earned frame of reference,
Every aphorism is given equal attention; each, gold-standard handcrafted,
To be read by somebody, someday, maybe, though probably not.
Don Quixote battling windmills is a fitting metaphor.
* * * *
If I was ever to start over – somehow be reborn, either male or female – I would just skip it all,
With the opposite sex, or my own, or whatever other genders might come into play.
Way too much bother, and adventures I need never experience again.
* * * *
No, I am not tossing out history.
I am simply pointing out that it is an imaginary invention,
To which we have tethered ourselves to such a fisted-hand-in-the-coconut degree,
That it is driving our kind, and a fair number of our fellow earthlings, and perhaps Gaia, towards oblivion,
Or certainly a far different garden than the one from which we spawned.
* * * *
What a remarkable thing it has been, to witness the rise and decline of this blip of a nation-state,
And likely to have traversed through the apex of what human civilization has had to offer, as well.
* * * *
The jury is still out, whether passing it around randomly for free, has been the best strategy.
* * * *
My faith is strong and sure and steadfast, for all times.
It is a faith that does not require the idolatry of form or thought.
It is a faith, so clear, that one must die to little self, to see it all, for what it is.
And from that faith, I leave You the distillation, of all this mind has ever thought and done.
Do with it what You will, or will not.
* * * *
How often what You are reading, is the morphed version of the original thought.
The original having been lost in the abyss of the churning mind,
In the time it took to reach for pen and paper,
Or as it was being scribbled.
Imagine this mind as one of those Magic Eight Balls;
Thoughts floating into view, floating out of view, sometimes retrievable, most often not.
* * * *
If these writings, these reflections, have merit, they will endure; if not, oh well in the so it goes.
It has been enough to observe whether the quantum théâtre de l’absurde of dreamtime,
Was as up to the mark set by all the self-promotion, by all the propaganda,
History has fed the masses as they chewed away on their mother.
My bet is that we will decline and fall, as all things ever do,
And all our creations, all our treasures, all our glories,
Will dissolve with the last whimper of imagination.
And the quantum abyss will not even shed a tear.
Nor I collect my winnings; for which I do despair
* * * *
Waking up to yet another dreamy day,
Trapped in a body racked with one bother or another,
The mind willy-nilly between agony and ecstasy, exasperation and rapture.
Curious how thought can play the gamut between amusing and tiring from one moment to the next.
What ceaselessly pointless vainglorious absurdity, this much ado about nothing.
The appeal of ever returning to this manifest dreamtime,
Has pretty much run its course.
* * * *
Although I have enjoyed so many things in this span of dreamtime,
All I ever really ‘wanted’ to do was be a forklift driver.
The spatial flowing of it, drew the farm boy.
On a forklift, in the field stations I in youth worked,
I was a fighter pilot, flying solo all about the asphalt jungles,
On which my iron horse and I, rallied about, putting order to daily chaos.
Such was my satisfaction, that I once even used vacation time at Creative Alternatives,
To work the peak of a walnut season at Ron Martella’s huller on Tully Road in hometown Hughson.
Ten-hour days in California Great Central Valley’s late summer often very warm weather.
Every moment absolutely, priceless, in the very-very right-here-right-now of it.
The hardest part was in those rare moments when it slowed down.
And even then, there was always something to do.
Breadcrumbs 2024
I am an outcome of the social-spiritual revolution of the 1960’s and 70’s.
A peasant’s eldest wandering the zenith of post-World War II United States of America,
Passing on thoughts, conclusions, opinions, judgments, about what I witnessed, and the parr I played.
That it has not developed its own legs, either proves I am wrong, or that the human species,
Is incapable of getting past its unfathomable arrogance or its insatiable avarice.
There is also great likelihood there is just too much to wade through,
Or that many just do not care to bother or care about it all.
Is there any doubt why I sit at the absurdist bar?
* * * *
All these years of scribbling have been both entertaining and wearisome,
In a sideways-topsy-turvy-inside-out-backwards sort of way.
Weave it all into some kind of enlightening story?
What, pray tell, would be the point?
It is done well enough for the rare few.
Think of all the videos I could have made.
Think of the following I might have cult-ivated.
I thank the gods for my insignificance, as should You.
I cannot imagine wanting or needing widespread approbation.
This garden orb does not require any more irrationality, any more absurdity.
You can thank or curse or ignore your Self, any time, any place.
You are, every moment, creator-preserver-destroyer.
You thank me when You discern your Self.
* * * *
My level of intrigue is far less, has always been far less, than many.
There is nothing I cannot walk away from if my whole world crashed and burned.
All I do is sit in coffee shops, write bullshit that very few people read, shop for supplies as needed,
See Mom and Sister once a week, and spend a couple hours most days in the club pool.
I am all but done with this cosmos, and this cosmos is all but done with me.
One of these days, I will be gone, and very few will even notice.
The universe has managed to ignore me while living;
It will even far less hard after I am gone.
* * * *
Have put this work out into the world in as many diverse channels as current technologies allow.
Nobody owns it, nobody controls it; everyone must discern the truth all on their own.
And all those who see, fairly quickly, without fanfare, know each other.
It is a very subtle, very quiet, very grass roots revolution.
No priesthood, no organization, no dogma.
Just a clear, rational view.
* * * *
What is a philosopher?
Cynic, skeptic, doubter, misanthropist, scoffer, doubter, pessimist,
Questioner, disparager, detractor, malcontent, loner, recluse, dilletante.
As pointless as pointless can be; the final chapter existence offers, to be sure.
* * * *
It was worth giving this body of work away no-charge.
Throwing it out there the willy-nilly way these digitalized times allowed.
No fame, no fortune, no control, no publishers, no followers, no travels, no speeches, no signings.
And only a modicum of vain notions with which to inwardly contend.
A strategy that saved all kinds of bother.
* * * *
Somebody had to scribe this, and it just sorta dumped itself into this lap.
If asked, would I do it again, I would say, with a shrug of these graying shoulders,
“What more could I possibly set down, without repeating myself more than I already have?”
This thought-filled theme park is for any and all, who discern within it, whatever they are looking for;
Whatever they might need, in the dystopian future that is so unescapably rushing at them.
* * * *
Why do I even bother scribbling all this?
I really do not much care for what the human paradigm has become,
Or the future to which it is inescapably, accelerating exponentially, every kaleidoscoping moment.
A vision so dark, so dismal, so painful, that the imminent extinction,
Cannot make its way hither soon enough.
* * * *
The post-WWII Boomer generation that I was born into, was set up by the idealistic winds of our youth,
To believe humankind could be, could do, something Darwin 101 assures us is impossible.
What I tell any who still harbor that delusional notion, any who still believe,
Us capable of overriding the natural selection that whittled us, for even a few minutes,
Is that You can take the monkey out of the jungle, but You cannot take the jungle out of the monkey.
* * * *
This guy would never lay any claim to being totally sane or rational or brilliant or anything perfect.
This mortal body, this mind, this imaginary moi, is as flawed and misguided and absurd,
And treacherous and hypocritical and irrational and judgmental and laughable,
And clumsy and frenetic and impulsive and irritable and divisive,
And narcissistic and hedonistic and greedy and vain,
And as inevitably mortal decline-and-fall as any other monkey-mind two-legged,
That has ever wandered every-which-way-to-and-fro across this dream-soaked dusty orb.
The perfection, all are, is not that which can be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or felt or thought.
* * * *
Things Which Mr. Just-in-Case Collects
Guns & Ammunition
Archery Equipment
Swords, Knives, Spears
Sundry Other Weapons
Martial Arts gear
Tools and Hardware
Chess & Other Strategy Games
Philosophy books
Military books
Weaponry books
History books
Political Science books
Science books
English language books
Spanish language books
Business books
Quote books
Gaming books
Health books
Cooking books
Exercise books
Resource books
Miscellaneous books
Exercise Gear
Kitchen paraphernalia
Coffee-making paraphernalia
The Great Courses DVD’s
Movie & Television DVD’s
Music CD’s
Camping gear
Office supplies
Hats
Dust collectors
Bags of every variety
Alcohol and Drugs
Informational websites
Blog posts
Facebook posts
Interesting article links
Non-followers
A material Peter Pan, to be sure.
* * * *
My gift to the dystopian future-slash-debacle, that I envision, with a shudder.
Do with it whatever You will; do with it whatever You can.
Sadly, better You than me, is all I gotta say.
Stay strong, rotsa ruck.
* * * *
When would I … Why should I … How could I …
Ever convince You, who-what-why-when-where-how, I am,
But through your own awakening to the eternal fact.
* * * *
Have always had a relativistic aptitude for relishing process.
For accepting things as they are, for accepting things as they come.
Perhaps because I was raised in a rural setting, in tune with nature’s fluidity.
Came from modest roots that never really expected or wanted that much out of life.
Tried to fan the fire in the belly as a business major out of college, but the spark never took.
The path of least resistance blew into my sail, and here I am, pondering the show.
Attentively writing down the so-many thoughts that bubble into mind.
* * * *
Some brand it, Brahman; some brand it, God.
Others, Buddha or Tao or Jehovah or Great Spirit or Whatever.
I call it the Mystery; the Mystery of the all in one, the Mystery of the one in all.
And no one need suffer any consequence, any punishment, any forfeit,
For granting it whatever name, or no-name, they are inclined.
No need for absurdity steeped in imaginary notion.
None can know how all this is happening.
Even the rumored supreme deity,
Witnesses in ignorance.
* * * *
René Descartes:
I think, therefore I am.
Yaj Ekim's Corollary:
I think, therefore I think I am.
I imagine, therefore I imagine I am.
You imagine, therefore You imagine You are.
And right-here-right-now, we all are, imagining we all, in space-time are.
An unborn-undying, unrehearsed, Shakespearian theater,
For as long as imagination draws breath.
* * * *
This is this lifetime’s contribution to the human paradigm.
Take it or leave it; please try not to hurt or kill anyone over it.
Please do not make it into some creed, it was never meant to be.
You can thank me, or scourge me, as befits the endgame’s narration
* * * *
All this philosophical chitchat, is not at all about yet another absurd, idolatrous belief system.
It is about the very real, very much in the moment, prior-to-consciousness awareness, You truly are.
There is nobody to follow, there is no confining dogmatic groupthink, there is no transaction fee.
All any need do, is pay attention to the given moment, as the mystery kaleidoscopes ever on.
It is very much a solitary mosey for those who have the wit and strength to stand alone.
It is very much an agnostic, existential stance, requiring no fallacious conclusions.
All one needs do, is be as free as the imaginary mind and mortal vessel allow.
* * * *
Me and all the other seers,
Churning out the same memorandum,
To the rare few fated with eyes to see, ears to hear.
* * * *
Got a good roll out of my little window of illusion.
And what happens after I am departed, after I am ashes and dust,
Is nothing I can do anything about, any more than I could while in the flesh.
* * * *
How it all seems to moi, is what these many thoughts, these many titles, are about.
Whether or not, they are anything the dreamtime’s future, will be in any way interested,
Is nothing this mind’s vanity, can more than pipe-smoking speculate, in its dystopian musings.
* * * *
Another day of rambling the quantum fever.
Bantering with your Self in whatever nooks and crannies are wandered.
Talking about, kicking around, hashing out, thrashing out, chewing over, every variety of this and that,
Learning and unlearning every rank of mind gorp, that death will someday wash away,
No matter how profound or clever, no matter how astute or shrewd.
* * * *
I have done my best with this work,
To leave something that is as great a vision,
As this mind-body and linguistic aptitude can muster.
As great a revelation as technology and times for a time allow.
Attempting in so many ways to fashion it nondualistically all-inclusive.
Something that will worm its way through the harsh age ahead,
Into a more rational, equitable, notion of humankind,
And its relationship with the natural world,
And the mystery that is source to all.
And to always try to remember,
That it is not at all about,
The little me who put it into play.
Rather, the big me, who is the You in all.
Best wishes, rotsa ruck, and apologies for the world we left You
* * * *
The very serendipitous – day-to-day of random folks – whose paths I crossed,
Were casually given business cards, with website name and address.
And before that, who knows how many pilfered copies,
Through the side door at the Kinko’s in Chico.
There is no knowing how far, how wide, or for what duration,
Future imagination-driven times, will choose to allow, this freely-offered serum,
From a scribe who pretty much made it his last hobby, his last distraction, his last will and testament.
* * * *
Coulda-shoulda-woulda, have brought to a halt, to all this nonsense long ago.
So much absurdity, over an elephant that can never been seen.
Coulda-shoulda-woulda, sought out a little cave.
Kept to my Self, Kept my peace,
Lived existence, rationally, serenely.
Free from all the mundanity, all the temporality.
Wait, I have done that! Here I am, ensconced right here now.
In my zennish, collector-hoarder hollow: Studio 101, Lakeside Apartments,
Turlock, California 93382-1016, United States, Gaia, Milky Way, Universe … Mystery …
* * * *
The weariness I feel with my take on the human paradigm,
Is beyond measure, many times, in so many situations, in any given day.
How tempting to just pull the plug on everything, to discard all this esoteric commentary,
Back into the oblivion, into the abyss, into the void, from whence it came,
And spend whatever remains of this dreamtime existence,
As quietly, as anonymously, as possible.
But no, I drudge on, as another ditty Magic-8-Ball’s into mind.
* * * *
All these notions are straight-up how I see it.
No regurgitations, no mimicking, no mendacities, no fanatisms.
Just the matter-of-fact, straight-thinking, no-nonsense, down-to-earth, the-way-it-is,
As seen through these older-than-the-stars-younger-than-the-moment eyes.
* * * *
If it is fated for these way-too-many thoughts to be discovered, I would prefer it be after I am rootbound.
Have never sought the weight of power, the rattle of gold, or the bother of groupthink.
Scribing all this has peaceably filled a great deal of this existence.
A pleasant pastime, to be channel for this mystery.
Being rewarded for such a gift, is given its due, with a nod of a head.
* * * *
A Self-imposed assignment; one in which I do not write what was done today, but what was thought.
An aphoristic journal-chronical-diary-memoir-bulletin-log-dossier-scrapbook-commentary-thesis-hobby.
As Thucydides Athenian historian and general (c. 460 – c. 400 BC) wrote:
My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public,
but was done to last forever.
Yaj Ekim: Define forever.
* * * *
A Text to Bruce
America invited the world's masses, and they have arrived.
That is rough on the losers, rough on the haters, and Trump became their führer.
My prevailing who-gives-a-fuck-where's-the-popcorn line: So it goes, deal with it, get over it, move on.
It is all ultimately just another epoch in history's the-horror-the-horror-planet-of-the-apes stagecraft.
You and I have lived in the most incredible window of history this world has ever experienced.
Tough for all the kids in the day care centers and playgrounds who are going to pay for it.
Seven billion people and a changing climate in a little over 200 years – Hope is dead.
(Bruce: This started out as one of our many back-and-forth texts, and worked itself into an aphorism.
Some guy named Bruce will be lionized in Breadcrumbs 2023 & Beyond and Michael's Rabbit Hole)
The children's book by Shel Silverstein – The Giving Tree – says it all about the human paradigm.
The Giving Tree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Tree
(P.S. Hey, just occurred to me to say – while we are still here – that I have always enjoyed our practically lifetime friendship. Forklifting at Joan of Arc was one of my all-time favorite jobs. Sorry about the toe. That moment, the calmness with which You told me the forklift was on your foot, still rings clear in this otherwise vague, aged memory. Never realized what You had endured until You told me years later.)
* * * *
And just to be steadfastly, beyond-all-doubts transparent – I do not much care for the word, prophet.
A little too loaded with historical undertones, to which I do not readily extend my Self.
Seer, mystic, sage, guru, maybe even augur or oracle, are tolerable fits.
If there must be any sound-concept ascribed to it, that is.
Deep, resonate Om-ing might be acceptable.
But try to put a crimp on any and all idolatries.
Ixnay on worshipping garden statues and crucifixes.
* * * *
The Anthropocene and a changing climate – a pitiless dragon – unfolding its wings upon all earthlings.
And alas for we post-war boomers, we elders, who bask in our unenviable senior moment,
Hoping to somehow evade the consequences of all our narcissistic hedonism,
Our little window of time, and all the consumption it allowed.
We are in for a taste, a whiff, of the future past.
* * * *
In this work, is written whatever comes to mind.
Audience or no, agreement or no, approval or no, applause or no.
For naught matters to the great emptiness, the great abyss, the great nothingness,
From whence all appearances, all illusions, kaleidoscope however they will.
How unlikely, that more than a relative few, will ever even hear of it,
Much less imbibe more than a few lines here and there, at best.
For anyone to peruse it all, would be an improbable feat.
One which would be, but another mirage of mind.
* * * *
This aphoristic opus was the last narcissistic-hedonistic vanity, that I could be enticed to orchestrate.
These writings, all extemporaneous, seem intent on stirring the potential of consciousness, of imagination,
To another echelon of intrigue in its Darwinian progression, if such a thing is even tenuously possible.
* * * *
The most candid, most sincere, most authentic answer, as to why have I bothered to scribe this opus,
Is the lucidity, the detachment, the hubris, the absurdity, of this nature-nurtured mind’s quixotic meander.
It is the reckoning, the revelation, of a happenstance-happenchance-contemplative-meditative amble.
It is the nothing-more-nothing-less, of this mind’s imaginary perception of an ineffable mystery.
* * * *
The human paradigm has long since become a friggin' insane-beyond-all-insanes asylum.
The engineers and all their minions have enticed us down a dead-end road.
How happy, how content I am, to be almost done with it.
* * * *
Regarding titles in this opus,
There is the ‘me’ voice, and there is the ‘Me’ voice.
Leftovers and Soundbites are the ‘Me’ and ‘My Self’ and ‘I’ rabbit dens.
Breadcrumbs lurk in the imaginary, more-likely-illusionary ‘me-and-myself-and-I’ wormhole.
It is a most challenging thing to walkabout this mortal quantum dreamtime,
And not be drawn willy-nilly into its distracting nature,
Same as all the other dreamers.
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There is likely something somewhere herein, for just about everyone.
This mystic wandering opus is not bound by the boundlessness of Eternity.
This mind’s penchant for living and dying, wanders easily afield in every manner.
“The dark side ain’t dark to me,” is a first and foremost go-to meme for this waggish mind.
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So many ditties that need editing,
And that editing shared with all the other creations.
All the derivative titles, and all their ‘under construction’ segments.
So many things to tie together, into an agreeable, concise, elegant, philosophical opus.
Which so relatively few will ever know of, much less bother to peruse.
So much to do, and so little time remaining to do it.
Such is likely the fate of all creators.
To Whom It May Concern
It is certainly a curious thing to have gone this mystical direction in life. Most definitely a road less traveled. As far as discussing it with others goes, I think, as with any specialty, any sphere – science, mathematics, music, sports, business, politics, et cetera ad infinitum – that we all tend to search out like minds to focus on our interests and passions. Scientists with scientists, mathematicians with mathematicians, musicians with musicians, athletes with athletes, businessmen with businessmen, politicians with politicians, et cetera ad infinitum. Our little “lost” tribe of seers, being somewhat scattered about the globe, are not always easy to run across. You just never know who will be sitting next to You in some coffee shop, bar, or park bench.
Personally, I have always been generalist and chameleon enough to enjoy chatting with whoever about whatever comes up. There is great freedom in anonymity. Many people I know quite well have very little if any clue about what I have done or what I have written. It has just never come up. I may probe and plant seeds, but do not worry whether or not they take root. Some minds are fertile; some are barren. It is just the way it is.
As far as staying connected with family, friends, and acquaintances goes, we each have to decide what is important to us, and it may be for some that burning bridges and moving on alone is only option they allow themselves. The high school class of my small rural town origin celebrated our 40th reunion a few years back, and those who came had a great time reconnecting and sharing their life journeys. Very few of them would ever be at all interested in my thoughts on things – many of them are true believers in one dogma or another – and I am okay with that. No point beating yourself over the head over things You cannot change.
The big view of it is that I am one of who knows how many awakened eyes in this magical mystery tour, as likely are You if You are reading this. Whether anyone else hears the call is something over which none of us has any say. Nor does it really matter. We may point the way to a larger vision, but it is each, abiding in their own set of capacities and limitations, who must, to whatever degree, wander the pathless land very much alone. We are but ephemeral seed crystals, of our own devices, for consciousness to do with what it will.
Everything I have written since 1989, except for a couple notebooks that were lost, along with a few other oopsie moments on the computer, is my gift to the future, such as it is. It is up to You and others I have befriended through the years to pass it on if You deem it to have merit. It has been an interesting pastime to give so much of my time over to it: to think it, to scribble it, to transcribe and edit it, to throw it about like Johnny did apple seeds. There may be in the neighborhood of five thousand pages worth by the time I exit this center stage. And what happens to it is for time to tell. I leave it to You to decide.
So it goes, either way. I played my part, I said my piece, I had my fun.
M
P.S. For best viewing online, using the largest screen You have available to explore my little theme park, is suggested. Scrolling down and down on a phone screen is just not going to give You the same entrée.
P.P.S. Regarding the name Yaj Ekim ... It is just a reverse spelling of the first and middle names ... Michael Jay Holshouser ... Mike Jay ... Yaj Ekim.
P.P.P.S. Coincidently, make of it whatever You will, or will not, Yaj is an Indian boy’s name meaning worshipper, sacrifice, another name for Shiva, a sage. And Ekim is a Turkish name for October meaning “sowing” (of seeds). All kinds of absurdity can be read into that by the many so-inclined – none of which was in mind when I came up with the idea to reverse the letters to my name. See P.P.S. for details.
P.P.P.P.S. Yes, I am Shiva. And so are You. No, I am not Shiva. And neither are You. Irony and paradox rule.
Th-Th-Th-That's All Folks!
Pointing to the whole elephant, as entertaining as it has been, has been an interesting lesson in futility.
Time to close down the show, and move on to an observation of silence mode.
Fare thee well, adieu, adios, auf wiedersehen, sayonara.
Regards and best wishes to all.
That said …
Stay Tuned
Given how this mind works, likely a few more ditties in the here and there,
For as long as these temporal lungs are still drawing air,
So stay tuned, You Wascally Wabbit.
Thucydides
My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public,
but was done to last forever.
Athenian historian and general (c. 460 – c. 400 BC)
History of the Peloponnesian War
Yaj Ekim
Define forever.