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We are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered… Where are you living?What are you doing?What are your relationships?Are you in right relation?Where isContinue reading “Hopi Prophecy In the Year 2000”

Out of the blue waters of life you’ve been gifted — Already a Buddha in a loving home thyme and nutmeg You grow for the love of growing and marvel at the birds Laughing will be your guardian angel as the world grows with you Barefoot baby notice the grass and you are loved justContinue reading “At 1 Years Old”

“May I view myself as the lowest amongst all,And, from the very depths of my heart,Respectfully hold others as superior.” Tibetan Training A spiritual aspirant aligns themselves counter to to the ego world of success and attainments. They should aspire to lift up the whole universe above them.

Not only is the nirvanic nature of reality completely free but the mind is inherently free too. Each moment arises in its own distinction free of all past and future. It is the activity of clinging to past and future that causes dukkha or suffering. Inherently the mind is freely active though.

Life is suffering — letting go of fixed thinking we let go of the shore and flow in the flux of samsara-nirvana. Letting go of definitions, merging with God and the devil, our original nature dawns. The Way has no preferences, teach the ancestors. The Way is who we already are, teach the elders. MeditationContinue reading “No Eyes No Ears No Nose No Tongue No Body No Mind”

All beings are within and without Drowning in joyous suffering The wept out laughterings of Like primordial rivulets And the cauterization of the trees In a skizoed out dory of The round language of the rain And its plastic clouds Insect orchestra alight On the ontological waves Of bittersweet myrrhings And chasms of the fleursContinue reading “For The Consecration of Each One Of Us”

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And the fleurs of, the magi of And the moving grainaries A blessing of groundlessnesses Like apples for the ox And self portraits of the poplars A blissfulness of radio static And cilantro films In a marring of clouds And forehead warriors The calculus of the rain On interim leavenings Our chapter of the illuminationsContinue reading “I Wept As Coriander”

“The sacred freedom of art Its sacred carelessness. I have got to take a piss.”

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“I believe music can awaken the same truths we find in our ancient texts.” Kari Hohne

Known as “The Sound”

Don’t really have the courageTo stand where I must standDon’t really have the temperamentTo lend a helping hand Don’t really know who sent meTo raise my voice and say:May the lights in The Land of PlentyShine on the truth some day I don’t know why I’ve come hereKnowing as I doWhat you really think ofContinue reading “The Land of Plenty by Leonard Koan”

“Consider the tree outside the door. It makes no effort to call the birds who rest in its branches and it is indifferent when they fly away, making no effort to call them back.” paraphrased from Lung-ya, student of Rinzai

I have nowhere to goI have no need to go anywhereSince I am one with the universe Sasaki Rōshi

“I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light. Mikael asleep, Jof with his lyre.” The Seventh Seal

“And yes, you are King David’s starAnd the crescent moon, and the crescent moonYou must sweep the Bodhi treeI sit beneath, I sit beneath” Conor Oberst “I woke up early once again that’s four days straightI didn’t wake you baby, I just watched you layIn the radiation of the city sunI am in love withContinue reading “Lyrics From The Heartmind”

“The great events of world history are at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual.”Carl Jung “Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.”Chogyam Trungpa “Music at its best … is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttaral cry, the great human effort toContinue reading “A Common Book”

All of my pranayama is yoked By an interior bronzing of The queen of ox pines And ceilings that abide in ceilings The root is essenceless And the seric arts heroine In a forest of subject and object The manifestation of gold villages And a winged rust that sings

It strikes like a god And is transelemental On the path of now The breaths of ambrosia Lostness in each aisle Bivouacked in my marrow Inscribed on starlight A thinking activity of forsythias And doors in each cloud The purling of a nacreous light As we traipse through Valhalla And wondrous kidney thoughts Ghee warriorsContinue reading “A Moment of Ocher”

Gestate the mind stream And heyoka the kidneysIn buttermilk laughter A pigeon of graceThe gone, gone alabaster And opalescence in the airLike a dory in the taiga Gossamer thoughts, gossamer wingsThe panoramic eyelessness Before crustaceans the archetypeAnd wild dogs on the steppes Like smashed yolksBecause of forehead midnights The dusty vinyl manA cricket in theContinue reading “The Ark of the Forest”

A tallness walks in the aspensand ceases in the rain This defenestration of thyme in a marketplace of right and wrongPianos alight on the silt and Basque in the apogee  Streams of light, streams of light that billow and are borderlessBecome the architectures Salinate the constellationsThis is my eye oeuvre A dollop of violence inContinue reading “To Rachmaninoff’s Forhead”

Like the heron’s red heart You are my beautiful cornerstone

Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. John 12:24 – 25 Suffering helps us find the eternal.

Zen is a transformation of the self. A waking up to our true awareness. In “existence” everything is dependent on the subject and object distinction. In true awareness there is a unification of subject and object. Ultimately this is a manifestation of our highest wisdom and compassion. No self or other, no world or timeContinue reading “Zen”

I recently discovered that every line of every hexagram has a causing line within every opposite causing hexagram. We will look at that first. I also found that every line has an opposite line within each hexagram when a single line changes to another. We will look at that second. It helps tremendously to knowContinue reading “Two Hidden Patterns in the I Ching”

I feel gratitude for our summer days And our practicings of serenity I am bowing to your smile You taught me Tai Chi, friend We who parisamsara miss you The dharma road is empty now I am walking to you in this poem With all beings who are no beings You have flowed on ThisContinue reading “For Michael Bush — who parinirvanaed on September 11, 2020”

Returning to the world egg Lower the blessed As he becomes pure luminosity From world to world-seed Eternity is your house now I am with you in my zazen Like the winds of the changeless And gratitude in this lunar hour You were unshelled From your dory here Now you are an ancient Your birdsContinue reading “Remember Wiggles — For Terence Wigglesworth”

Shepherd the vastness Amor fati An eternal tear moving seed This neu deluge A pearl in your heart Find the messiah in the jugular enclave A theater of kindfulness Neti neti, la maison Her voyage

Anarchism is a field of potentialities; both ideals and praxis. It is heresy, chaos and self-determination. Anarchokultur is ever-renewing. You minister to it, you/enflux it. Let the riders of normalcy stray into their own obsolescence. Rewild the mind. Be shamanistic about the futures. Engage the rhyzomes. Non-violence is spiritually superior to violence even sacred violence.Continue reading “anarchospiritual”

The Thai monk walked beside me at once speaking and lapsing into dream. His head was a knob of curling wood. And when he spoke of happiness it was there to shut me up and yet also congratulatory. We spent the afternoon like this on gravel roads that turned sandy until the tar returned. HeContinue reading “prose poem”