April 19, 2018 at 8:18 AM
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“The primary source of emotional suffering is engaging in mental relationships.” A. H. Almaas
(Dropping from some little free library loosely)
watch the illumination of
round 1
of ocean-bound airplanes
only the
And wolves tearing at my flesh
scum of the earth
North
ride buses, my father
New Orleans, Mobile, Evergreen
explains.
Montgomery, Atlanta
this filth
port-a-potty vampires and
has human faces -
spare daffodils
exhausted, maybe a little bit
Athens, Charlotte, Durham,
strung out, with children
Richmond
on their laps -
Washington D.C., New York
my mother would be
A museum, mausoleum, a
mortified
moment
As I, unsobered
to everything we’ve never known
cypress skeletons through time
skylight.
Across two seats I dream
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April 19, 2018 at 8:18 AM
each day a new city
possible to understand what
in the valley of complex concrete
Being is. When this happens,
and plexiglass
you’ll discover that even if there
in one, I get engaged under a
is action and activity, where you
fight club poster
come from is peace and
in another, I pinkie swear atop
stillness. This peace and stillness
the Coney Island Ferris wheel
is exactly what your ego resists
Oh, graveyard shift bus driver
most of all. For the ego, it is a
every time you breathe
kind of death experience.
A beacon that floods and fades
every time you die
That is peace, complete peace,
I become you.
no reaction to anything, no rejection, then it is possible to
round 2
know what Being is.
the moon, the moon
Peace, the presence of stillness
is always round 2
and calmness
wax and wane without meaning
not dull or vague, but as an
criminal
exquisitely alive kind of
draw the 9 of Swords
consciousness.
sleep under 9 dead roses
carry a headless religious figure
Seeking, we move away from the
Across New York City, and
source of pleasure and peace.
try to describe the sky without
“Truth is a self-existing quality of Being” Sat Nam: Truth IS my identity
implications of your own
Peace is the absence of
emotional landscape.
suffering.
(if anyone asks, I
One reason for suffering is that
never pray for ambulances
most people are not looking for
as they pass by)
peace, they are looking for pleasure.
PEACE (Almaas)
Seeking pleasure assumes that
pleasure is somewhere else, not
When you really see that the
here and now.
nature of the personality is
That is the basic premise of
reactivity, when you see the
seeking.
whole cycle of ego activity
The finding can only happen
based on hope, desire and
when the seeking stops.
rejection, it is possible that the
The pleasure, the peace, the
activity will cease, and peace
love, the fulfillment is right here
and stillness will arise. Then it is
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