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Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

EXITING YOUR NON-EXISTENT WORLD -rjs

EXITING YOUR NON-EXISTENT WORLD

Do you often find yourself caught in the middle of two opposing worlds? If so don’t be hell-bent on mitigating the severity of each by trying to harmonize them: they don’t exist! Start with – and stay with – the answer: the worlds don’t exist and neither do you!

Imagine that! You don’t exist and you never have! What happens to all your issues now, given the fact that neither you nor any other human being has ever trod this imaginary globe? All that background … all those years of abuse … gone!

Gone because they never existed – ever! That little boy/girl who ruled the world until awakening to the dastardly plight of humanhood was never a swimmer in the first place!

Stay with the sheer simplicity of it: back to sleep or be it. It is bereft of all mortality, all humanity, good or bad – the entire colossal illusion etherealized.

The critical point of this writing is that it cannot be scoped with the mind for there is no mind.

IT is absolute emptiness without the slightest trace of ‘thing-ness’ at all, nothingness in pristine purity.

One time awash in concepts and conceptualizations, now free of every last whit! What to do? And how to stay with it?

As the archer, aim for IT 🎯 and stay.

-Robin Starbuck

What if? Continue walking -rjs

What if?
You were walking down the street
When it suddenly hit you
Absolutely nothing exists –
Nothing whatsoever!

Not you. Not me.
Not the lamppost.

A void, emptiness – total
And complete.
Unfathomable nothingness.

No Past, no future
No present space
Nor time.

And total elation set in!
“You” couldn’t contain it all!
Ineffable joy, unspeakable love

What in the world could you do?
Continue walking down the street.

~Robin Starbuck

Nothing to say -rjs

Uh-oh!
I really have nothing to say.
Nothing at all.
But was driven to open fb
Okay here goes nothing!

When all the opposition
Within you gives up
And you feel spent
Waiting for the next affront
And see there’s none,

Take IT in – IT’s all there is
And IT’s better than yours:
IT’s you!
Oh how glorious! Amazing!
Never knew IT’d be so free!

Did you?
Yet here IT is!!!
Oh for goodness’ sake!
IT’s so unspeakably simple
Un-graspable,

Unentangled, wholly perfect,
Object-less.
Egotism, popularity, acquisition,
Accomplishment’s rewards
Tossed.

No path, no journey, no work
At all – just unspeakable
Unutterable undeniable
Peace, Life,
Love.

Robin Starbuck

End of seeking -rjs

“Seeking” has become an unglorious word –
And I get it.
Why keep seeking and seeking and seeking
For that which is right smack
In front of you?
But alas for those who can’t yet
Look at a chair, a smudge somewhere,
A smiling little face, a highway robbery
And feel overwhelmed with sadness and joy
To the point of tears,
Nearly out of control laughter,
Simultaneity, unicity, sublimity –
For those dear “me”s:
It’s right here.
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