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whippoorwill
USA
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 Posted - Dec 09 2012 : 6:50:54 PM
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Random Unstructured Musings...
Call these posts musings instead of poetry.
Imagine the violence done to poetry by including any of this.
These are questions and answers.
Right answers and wrong answers. It doesn't matter.
I just need a way to approach
That-something-nothing-that-I-cannot-grasp-or-give-a-name-to.
Using language to go beyond language seems impossible.
But is that any reason not to try? |
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whippoorwill
USA
450 Posts |
Posted - Dec 09 2012 : 6:52:16 PM
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How do I find the right question?
Whatever question appears is the right question for that moment.
Take them as they come. |
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whippoorwill
USA
450 Posts |
Posted - Dec 09 2012 : 7:00:10 PM
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Where am I right now?
In the data banks of computers around the world.
In the fiber-optic lines encircling the globe.
In the blanketed and twice-thick yoga mat.
In the smooth, hard surface of the floor.
In the soft fur and sound of gentle purring.
In the laughter, stomping, and music drifting from upstairs.
In the cracking, popping joints.
In the stiff hips and shoulders.
In the warm tea pouring down my throat.
In the hot breath as it leaves my body.
In the thoughts as they tear through the mind.
In the image of Jack Skellington on my mug.
"Mornings are my worst nightmare," it says.
Hahahaha!
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Bodhi Tree
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Posted - Dec 09 2012 : 11:56:05 PM
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Yes...yes...and wait, one more yes.
Raw, real, and unscripted. Bravo! |
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whippoorwill
USA
450 Posts |
Posted - Dec 10 2012 : 10:13:59 PM
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Thanks, Bodhi! Yeah, that was kind of fun. It helps too. 
I'm just waiting for the people with the straightjackets to show up. I'm talking to myself. And my self is talking back!   |
Edited by - whippoorwill on Dec 10 2012 10:54:53 PM |
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whippoorwill
USA
450 Posts |
Posted - Dec 10 2012 : 10:35:28 PM
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But of course, nothing written there is still true.
Experience changed the moment I put it into words.
What is true?
No clue.
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What is false?
That which doesn't match my own experience appears false.
But experience remembered is just an idea in my head.
Ideas are mutable, easily changed.
They stick... or not... and are colored by what I believe.
Can I say with any honesty that something is false?
No clue.
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If I don't know what's true, and I don't know what's false,
How do I live in this world?
Don't think. Just do.
Experience happens effortlessly. Just notice.
That gut feel you have: This feels right; that feels wrong.
Go with it. It's good enough for now.
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - Dec 11 2012 : 01:50:58 AM
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whippoorwill
USA
450 Posts |
Posted - Dec 11 2012 : 07:40:50 AM
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whippoorwill
USA
450 Posts |
Posted - Dec 11 2012 : 08:00:00 AM
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Oh! True and False are concepts
Overlaid onto experience.
Without “true,” false ceases to exist.
Without “false,” true ceases to exist.
Concepts are mutable, impermanent.
Experience happens regardless of these.
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What is honesty?
It is a principle – an effort –
To live as closely to the truth as possible.
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How is that possible, when I don’t know what’s true?
“Truth” and “true” are not the same thing.
Truth is reality -- unconditioned experience.
“True” is a judgment
Placed by the mind on top of experience.
Live in the place where experience comes from
And it will be honest.
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Where does experience come from?
I don’t know….
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whippoorwill
USA
450 Posts |
Posted - Dec 11 2012 : 08:17:20 AM
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Doh! Foiled again!   |
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sivasambho
USA
136 Posts |
Posted - Dec 11 2012 : 11:39:08 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by whippoorwill
Doh! Foiled again!
nice job liz! Good to see the wisdom flowing... by the way i am progressing nicely on my previous ambitions... :) |
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whippoorwill
USA
450 Posts |
Posted - Dec 12 2012 : 10:51:20 PM
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Hi Sivasambho!
I'm so glad things are going well for you!
I debated about putting this stuff up here, but I really felt the need to write, and it sure does help to have someone to write to. Hopefully no one will take it too seriously.
All the best to you!
--Liz |
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whippoorwill
USA
450 Posts |
Posted - Dec 13 2012 : 8:31:51 PM
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I exist. I know this in my gut.
I don’t exist. I know this too.
It’s a contradiction, a paradox.
Illogical.
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Logic describes the relationship between ideas,
And ideas are objects in awareness.
When you go beyond objects
To THAT of which objects are made,
Does logic still apply?
I wonder what Mr. Spock would say.
I guess I would say that logic works very well
Until it doesn’t.
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The “world out there” is experienced as illusion.
Example:
When my hand is on the table, all I have is the experience of feeling – of touch.
When I look at a table, all I have is the experience of seeing.
There’s no experiential proof that an object called a table exists outside of seeing and touching.
There’s no experiential proof of a “world out there.”
Example:
When meditating, and sometimes when not,
The “me” sense – the awareness of this body/mind –
Doesn’t stop at the skin.
It travels well into the space beyond the boundary of skin.
Experience refutes the notion of a “me in here.”
Besides, a “world out there” can’t exist without a “me in here.”
And vice versa.
I can’t find either one.
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But…
Even though the “world out there” and the “me in here”
Are seen as illusion,
It seems a huge mistake to deny them.
They are consciousness manifest – right?
Who are we to argue with THAT?
Now where did I put my car keys?
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whippoorwill
USA
450 Posts |
Posted - Dec 13 2012 : 9:04:39 PM
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| Many thanks to mr_anderson for pointing me toward Rupert Spira and Greg Goode! |
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mattb23
Australia
99 Posts |
Posted - Dec 14 2012 : 07:40:25 AM
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Random, inspired, playful, and earnest musings.
Namaste
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Dialogs with Silence
