All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck

About Dr. Robin Starbuck

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

No Me (h-m)

No me,you,s/he/it

Haiku for the poor in spirit.

Even the Absolute is the dream.
The worded is the futile.
Meaning is dreamt.
‘Your life’ doesn’t exist.
What apparently lives is nullity.
Nothing realizes nothing.
This is breathtaking.
Seeing this is unbearable for the sense of self.
Nothing matters.
Understanding deludes.
There is no last resort.
No refuge.
Nirvana is a joke.
The Buddha lost his mind in an attempt to go beyond himself.
The Bodhi Tree farted.
Brain bursts into laughter.
The belly shakes.
The grass grows by itself.
The spring is coming…..

Wouter van Oord.

breathlessly beautiful!

    

Nothing needs to be done. That’s one of the “trickiest” points for people to “process”. This, right here, whatever it is, is absolute allness and absolute nothingness simultaneously. 

     It seems like an astronomical task to quit trying to make sense out of that which is beyond all sense and sensibility! Yet it’s so unbelievably simple … and breathlessly beautiful!

DrRobinStarbuck

It’s all over -rjs

IT’S ALL OVER

You don’t exist.
I don’t either.
Nobody does.

Not in some far-off
Esoteric “place” but
Right here, right “now”

Ponder it deeply
Before your pondering
Mechanism dissolves!

Every “thing” is departing
With fond alacrity
Good riddance to it all.

Alone at last – how sublime!
No more years to waste
On the treadmill of seeming life.

Nothing has changed . . .
And yet
Every thing is different now.

Indescribably wonderful!
Ineffable perfection
Joy without end.

There may be pain and fear
What of it? You’re not there.
Nor me, nor him, nor anyone.

The ultimate “finished” freedom
Is found in everyone’s
Ever-present absence.

-Robin Starbuck

YOUR UNFINISHED GOLDEN BUT PAINFUL OPPORTUNITY   -rjs

YOUR UNFINISHED GOLDEN BUT PAINFUL OPPORTUNITY   

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it can be trauma gone amuck

things just aren’t as they should

stuff … unacceptable, never quits

and all you want is out! 

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You err my good friend. 

Yes you really have glimpsed

Truth beyond all this seeming.

Way beyond, but right here. 

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You could never have awakened

As you – yes You – have done!!

Without the trauma goading you

Since day one! 

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You must let go of the people

Who’ve trampled you down. 

No story, no conclusion, just

Drop them off alone. 

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Close every book, …….

Finished at last. ……

Even when symptoms persist ….

Don’t fail to open………

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 

Too late! You don’t exist! -rjs

Too late! You don’t exist! 

Every Thing is fleeting —

Oops there goes another one! 

Can’t trust ’em, cannot kill 

the already dead. 

Alive again to take you down

Too late! You don’t exist! 

Oh well I’ll just visit Me then …

We’ll marry & extinguish. 

Free as always, never not. 

Wishing and longing unknown. 

What is wanted is what is

Dancing to the tango!