WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

NOW runs like a crack
through the universe.
Through it
beings escape. 

Between each step
Between each movement
Between each breath
Between each heartbeat
Between each living cell
Between each thought
Between each impulse
light shines.

Through the crack
that runs through
the universe now.

No-one who grasps after
even a speck of dust
can squeeze through this crack.



NEW PROJECT: JUMPING FROM THE GIRLS' BEDROOM WINDOW

  

ARE YOU A PIANO OR A PIANO PLAYER?

GREATS AND MODS

The Professor of Philosophy
is Al Capone
who can practise Piscatology
all on his own.

His Doctoral Thesis
divides mankind into two,
“Pianos and Piano Players”;
he enquires, “Which are you?”

He smiles at the students
his reputation brings
and, gently, but firmly,
plucks their strings.



NEW PROJECT: WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

RED HOT POKER

"A world in trouble?

War in the Far East and the Middle East. Suicide bombers. Riots on the streets. Gaols and Psychiatric hospitals full. Soaring crime. Racial hatred. Violence in the schools and in the home. Economic Meltdown.

Yes. A world in trouble.

Everywhere man is striving for Freedom. But he understands freedom as freedom to do what he wants. But a man who does what he wants is often not free at all. He is the slave of his desires. Real freedom is not freedom to but freedom from.

Freedom from suffering.

Here is the answer. Simple, straightforward. Open to any man whatever his background."

(Basic Buddhism for a World in Trouble ISBN 978-0-9571901-3-9)

NEW PROJECT: ARE YOU A PIANO OR A PIANO PLAYER?

DOING

Every doing
you send out
comes back to you
(make it good).

Every doing
that comes back to you
is a debt
(pay it)
or an opportunity
(be grateful).


NEW PROJECT: RED HOT POKER

OH YE INHERITORS OF IMMORTAL BLISS!

Oh ye Inheritors of Immortal Bliss
what
are You
doing
with This?

Oh ye winners of lottery first prizes
what are your doings
with the winnings?

(Oh ye sinners of unexpected surprises
 what are you trawling up
 with your sinnings?)



NEW PROJECT: DOING

CHOOSING TO MUST

Choosing to must
choosing to can't
choosing to shall
choosing to shan't
choosing to lose
choosing to find
choosing to cruel
choosing to kind
choosing to wise
choosing to fool
choosing to see
choosing to blind
choosing to truth
choosing to lie
choosing to believe
choosing to why?
choosing to live
choosing to die
No!
choosing to die
NO!
choosing to born, choosing to die
choosing to born, choosing to die
choosing to born is choosing to die
choosing to born IS choosing to die
choosing to born IS choosing to die
YES



NEW PROJECT:

Oh ye Inheritors of Immortal Bliss
What
are You
doing
with This?

CHOOSING TO CAN'T

A man is led by two others into a cell. They leave him there and lock the door, taking the key with them.

A man goes into a room, carrying a book. He locks the door behind him and puts the key on the table. Then he sits down, facing the open window, and starts reading.

The first man's mobile phone rings. "Yes, I realise that it is important." He looks at the door. "But I can't come."

The second man's phone rings. "Yes, I realise that it is important." He looks at his book. " But, I'm sorry, I can't come."

The operative word is "choose". If there is choice there is freedom to choose.

Can and can't have nothing to do with it.

If there is freedom to choose, you choose what you want. (Even if you choose to do your duty, it is because that is what you want to do.)

If you choose to can't, it is because you don't want to can. So why not say, "I don't want to"?

In order to avoid accepting responsibility. It is part of the psychological culture of blame.

NEW PROJECT: CHOOSING TO MUST

STRAIGHT STICK, CROOKED STICK

It may be obvious if a stick is crooked or it may not.  It is most obvious if it is set alongside a straight stick. In the physical world there are standard measurements (straight sticks) such as the standard lengths on the wall of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with which potentially crooked sticks (shopkeepers' measures?) can be compared.

These straight sticks exist in the mental world too.  Variants in English spelling can be referred to the Oxford English Dictionary.

In ethics involving morality and right behaviour, for some people the equivalent of the wall of the Royal Observatory might be Moses' Stone Tablets of the Law.  The equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary might be the Bible.

Or the Koran.  Or the Vedas.  Or the Avesta.  Or Das Kapital.

There lies the problem.  If there is more than one stick claiming to be straight and they are not identical, the adherents of each will view each of the others as crooked.

The result can only be trouble.  

Today, now, look at the world.  You will see the kind of trouble it leads to.

This is a universally applicable straight stick:

   Avoid Bad

   Cultivate Good

   Purify your Mind

Where

Bad is doing to other beings what you not like them to do to you.

Good is being helpful, kind and considerate.

Purify your mind is understood in the sense of purifying water; where all adulterants are removed, leaving pure water.

NEW PROJECT: CHOOSING TO CAN'T