a poem is a sermon
There’s just so much that can be done in any given day. That’s why so many things are broke and probably stay that way. In any case, dividing blame is just another game. There’s always an excuse for doing nothing. Everything still happens just the same. It’s not as though the answer’s plain as day, […]
It’s not like there aren’t solutions to our problems. All our problems. Because these problems, despite how desperately we wish to see ourselves as unique, special, one-of-a-kind, and individual x-y coordinates in an infinite Cartesian universe, are not new. None of them. They are centuries – millennia, epochs – old. UG Krishnamurti suggests that there […]
Life is not a ride. In the sense that this is NOT an amusement park. Yes, there are ups and downs, sideways and frontways and backways. It often seems like we’re spinning in circles. But it’s more like a washing machine, I think, than it’s anything like a Tilt-O-Whirl. Ups and downs. But it’s not […]
We think that endless study is the answer. Endless something or other: sitting, thinking, discussing, debating, considering, studying, chanting, reciting, bowing, hoping. There is no method for total awareness. No guru, no teacher, no “course”. No journey to it. There is nothing THERE. It is already HERE. Whatever It is. You MAY use complicated means […]
OK so here’s a little something new. I’ve been playing around with Speechify for audio books – just to keep the reader quality consistent, as it is often not quite right for a lot of audio books that aren’t read by their author(s). So: I “cloned” my voice in Speechify. It’s a little weird, the […]
To me, a poem is a sermon, meant to start a whisper slow and lowly, just above the congregation’s expectant murmur pepper with a few harsh backhands, gaps, and nervous coughs. In a good sermon you never really know what to expect. That’s why you’re nervous a little. Understandable. And that’s just the beginning. In […]
You have a beautiful idea. It’s magnificent. A well crafted and elegantly, yet kindly, worded statement on the human condition. It may well change the world. You think: I must write this down or record it in some way – for fame, posterity, etc. And then you are distracted. And then the idea is gone. […]