You just want a hand up, don’t you?
You want to ease your way out of this imaginary place.
You are tired of the confinement that comes with personal identity.
Well, that’s not going to happen.
That’s not the way it works.
Any help offered is part of the dream.
Michael Markham
Upon further scrutiny
That dream “I” just awoke from
Seemed sorely lacking.
No birth, growth, maturity,
No history whatsoever
Just its own impudence.
“I” spent ten years schlepping
To and fro the university
For what?
Bought books and shit like that.
Pored over them, digested them
And spat them out.
Then this audacious dream occurs
Where’d all “my” learning go?
Why am “I” not turned around
At the slightest presentation anymore?
The dream doesn’t apologize.
It looks at … or, through, “me”
Says “your” examination expired.
Who says there ever was a “you”?
Who says there ever was?
Who says there ever?
Who says?
Robin Starbuck
Nothing mystical or special about this.
No second-guessing imaginary gods.
No Shinrin-yoku…..The Medicine of Being in the Forest.
Nothing magical about not wearing shoes or not eating certain foods.
No balancing of energies with Feng shui.
No talking with dead people.
No dictates from celestial bodies.
No smoking up the house with sage of burnt feathers.
No sending help to others with nothing but your good intentions.
No manipulating the mind to attain imagined improvement.
Just this.
Just this streaming kaleidoscopic cornucopia of swirling colors and sounds.
Michael Markham
As long as we think that we are the doer or the knower, we will have our foot nailed to the confusion.
Michael Markham
Bill Skiles’ website: mysticalprinciples.com
Thunder of SilenceOn top of LIST of Herb Fitch’s audio tracks, there are 1-11 and are not named THUNDER OF SILENCE. At the very END of the List are track numbers 12-19 also not named. Added to List at end is THUNDER #1&B.They have “(1)” attached because they do also appear elsewhere in the List. ●●●You can smoothly do the whole list by starting with all Thunder of Silence beginning with number 1A&B at the end of the List and then everything at the top of the list that is not yet La Jolla or Revelation is thunder of silence. It can be done in chronological order by skipping around or just simply do it in the order that it is in the list skipping La Jolla and revelation temporarily then go back and do La Jolla and Revelation. I think later on in there, there might be Parenthesis in Eternity sprinkled in but after La Jolla and Revelation so you could probably just do those tracks when they appear in that order. It won’t disrupt anything.
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.