this is work in progress or homilies or miscellaneous items

that don't warrant a page by themselves

or seem to fit better here



pending poems  index



chronological order is from the bottom to the top of the page



audio files can be complemented by listening to them  with the eyes closed !


















socrates wanted to  die 


“ i know that i cannot escape  

paying the penalty of old age,

in increasing dimness of sight

and dullness of hearing.

i shall find myself slower

to learn new lessons,

and apter to forget

   the lessons i have learnt ”
















xenophon                             anabasis


war is an unstable business,

mischance can capsize

the most well organised army

but overall themes come into play

and the balance of power

generally tells in favour

of these themes

like the superior naval skills

of the greeks against the persians

and their better metallurgy and armour



cyrus the younger could have been emperor

had he been more cautious

in the excitement of the battle

about killing his brother



interestingly, the javelin thrower who killed cyrus was in turn  executed  by artaxerxes II in the most gruesome manner, tied into two small boats and his face smeared with milk and honey so it always covered with flies . . .


mithridates was set up by the chief eunuch of parysatis, the mother of both cyrus and ataxerxes and cyrus was her favourite son !


had that throw been two centimeters off, all history would have been changed, quite favourably as it would have happened for mithridates ! : o)(
















a popular franz kafka  quote 


you need not leave your room.

remain sitting at your table and listen.

you need not even listen, simply wait.

become quiet, and still, and solitary.


the world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

it has no choice.

it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.



my  reply 


it didn't roll in ecstasy at the feet of his sisters,

they were  gassed  by the nazis


you need to leave the room,

the world is abitch

and will get you at the table

if you stay in one place too long

: o )



there's something different about kafka

photos  of him at one and between two and three -

in the middle of the linked page ),

       precocious, depressed, a sharp bright energy there..............

pity about the TB
















neo-advaita is an unstoppable bandwagon


full


of


schizophrenics


zen


is


astoppable


bandwagon


full of schizophrenics !


what's


the


difference?
















you are always going to feel angry and hurt regardless of circumstance


you will manufacture it if the circumstances are benign,

which of course they never are


as aperson you are angry and hurt


life has been a very rough innings for you
















there's always a strong development of skill


the basics may have been there but superior competence is not
















really ?


did you ever feel sometimes


that


you


are


digging


a


ditch?
















“ the miracle is not to walk on water   


   the miracle is to walk on this earth ”


 the above quote by thich nhat hanh  (lol go yoda!)



my


reply


    the earth is moving water, maybe it's a miracle, maybe it isn't  : o )

















 misogynal optimism ?


piercingly cold

stepping on my dead wife's comb

in the bedroom


buson  (1706-83)  composed this while his wife was alive.

his wife tomo outlived him by 31 years.

another translation of his  fictional  haiku



the piercing cold —

in our bedroom stepping

on my dead wife’s comb
















i think having looked a bit further into it,

the translations of rumi

we see today

are spaced out vacancies

done by boozed nits

   with low brain blood sugar  : o )



a. j. arberry who does a relatively  literal  translation

indicates the rich complexity

of rumi's language and meaning,

that alas may be forever lost to us,

alienated by time and culture

as we are

from the interweb of meanings

available to him

and his contemporaneous

listeners and readers !



i don't think we see today

    what rumi wrote at all  : o )
















i think having looked a bit further into it, the translations of rumi we see today are spaced out vacancies done by boozed nits with low brain blood sugar : o)


a. j. arberry who does a relatively  literal  translation indicates the rich complexity of rumis's language and meaning, that alas may be forever lost to us, alienated by time and culture as we are from the interweb of meanings available to him and his listeners and readers !


i don't think we see today what rumi wrote at all  : o )
















what


is


human


is


not


 complete


:


o


(


)
















what is human is not complete


:


o


(

















it's always hard to get,

the blindness of people

following their own needs



:


o


(

















it's always hard to get, the blindness of people following their own needs  : o (
















the


female


brain


is


a


gardener


:


o


)


(
















the female brain is a gardener


:


o


)

















zazen only looks like something

in the absence

of a more direct perception

of what it's about



:


o


(


)
















zazen only looks like something

in the absence

of a more direct perception

of what it's about



:


o


)


(
















fred,

zazen only looks like something

in the absence

of a more direct perception

   of what it's about   : o )
















two rumi quotes



---------------



forget safety


live where you fear to live


destroy


your


reputation


be


notorious



------------------



i


have


tried


prudent


planning


long


enough


from


now


on


i'll


be


mad



----------------



i do have issues with rumi !


the first is that there is a good possibility

that shams-i-tabrīzī

  was murdered by one of rumi's sons !


now the quotes are  vacant

but in fact my experience of religious translations

is they are usually  very poor

and the original writings come from cultural contexts



where alot of the meaning

is necessarily lost today  !



 : 0 )


the first quote i would retranslate as


with a cautious prudence as to safety

there is the necessity of going outside boundaries !



با احتیاط محتاطانه به ایمنی است، لزوم رفتن مرزهای خارج وجود دارد      persian


مع السلامة الحذر هناك ضرورة من الذهاب خارج الحدود                        arabic


or


treading carefully one has to go through one's boundaries : o )


or


there is the necessity of going outside boundaries

even with caution it's dangerous enough : o )


شما باید برای عبور از مرز، با وجود کار و خطر


هناك حاجة للتغلب على الحدود، حتى مع الحذر من الخطر



also i would add that

we get fried

staying inside the boundaries

as well

 :o)



ما معیوب اگر ما در داخل مرزهای ما باقی بماند


تحصل على تضررت نحن أيضا، إذا بقينا داخل أنفسنا



the second quote i retranslate as


all my plans have failed,

   i might as well not pretend not to be mad   : o )



تمام برنامه های من شکست خورده اند و من به عنوان ممکن است به خوبی تظاهر نیست که من دیوانه نیست


فشلت كل خططي وأنا قد وكذلك لا أدعي أنني لست مجنونا



or


all my plans have failed,

i might as well stop pretending

  not to be mad   : o )



در تمام برنامه های من شکست خورده و من نیز ممکن است متوقف کردن تظاهر من دیوانه نیست


فشلت كل خططي وأنا كذلك قد وقف التظاهر أنا لست مجنونا

















when you get enlightened you'll never do zazen again,

but you will never get enlightened

    so you will always be doing zazen  : o )
















when you get enlightened you'll never do zazen again, but you will never get enlightened so you will always be doing zazen  : o )
















a woman's dissatisfaction is like erosive acid



one                                  two
















that's a good  description  of relationship  seen


with un-illusioned eyes


  : o )
















that's a good  description  of relationship


seen


    with un-illusioned eyes  : o )
















that's a good  description  of relationship seen with un-illusioned eyes  : o )
















if  that's  not infinity what is?


  turn off the music !  : o )
















paul nicklen  leopard  seals


video
















reply  to jeff foster


having spent time in zen

where  one is spoon fed  the notion of  “gratitude

let me offer the opinion

it's poisonous and destructive

   and a meme designed to create subservience

to whatever religious paradigm  : o )

one feels gratitude only a few times in a lifetime

and it's when something

unexpected and significant is done for us,

in terms of the developing understanding

with   this work

i can't say i have ever felt gratitude,

    it's more just a relentless progression of work !  : o )
















jeff, (ed. foster) having spent time in zen where one is spoon fed the notion of "gratitude" let me offer the opinion it's poisonous and destructive and a meme designed to create subservience to whatever religious paradigm : o)............. one feels gratitude only a few times in a lifetime and it's when something unexpected and significant is done for us, in terms of the developing understanding with "this work" i can't say i have ever felt gratitude, it's more just a relentless progression of work !  : o )
















this actually seems to me the number one rule on the web,

people basically getting you to do the work for them

and never stretching themselves at all!
















  inside our boundaries                                surety
















there's such a thing as retroactively


making a lie true  : o )
















there's such a thing as retroactively making a lie true  : o )
















i think it's important with conflict

to not go in circles

but move,

ever so slightly

to a more productive space

which is actually the work of alife time : o)

i wouldn't view conflict as unhealthy at all  : o )


i don't mean physical violence or sabotage

which are generally speaking disasters
















i think it's important with conflict to not go in circles but move,
ever so slightly to a more productive space
which is actually the work of alife time  : o )


i wouldn't view conflict as unhealthy at all  : o )


i don't mean physical violence or sabotage which are
generally speaking, but not always, disasters
















women have   no respect for work at all,

it and men are there to be used


the paradigm is feeding children,

they have to grab grab,

a child who goes without food

for several days

can die or become ill
















women have   no respect for work at all,

it and men are there to be used


the paradigm is feeding children, they have to  grab grab,

a child who goes without food for several days can die or become ill
















  “ les dieux n’étant plus, et le christ n’étant pas encore, il y a eu, de Cicéron à Marc Aurèle, un moment unique où l’homme seul a été ”


( a well known quote from the correspondence of  gustave flaubert )


when the gods had ceased

and christ was not yet,

from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius

  was a unique moment

    when only man was  : o )



   a bit highbrow  for you lot?  ; o )
















capture           versions             one                two
















i


wonder


if


dogen


fucked


his


health


with


too


much


sitting?


probably


:


o


)


(


sit longer  you zen morons,

you   and prediabetes

need each other



:


o


)
















gerry  writes


I follow the Rules!

I try to please my peers and superiors.

Though i admit, not always accomplished.

But underneath it all, I am a good person.



my comment:


gerry is a bit simple minded

and the complexity of your poems (ed. eileen's) would upset him


ambiguity about good and bad would upset him


i find with the net it's essential to look at what else they have written to get a picture


i think he starts to see (ed. what eileens poems are about) then draws away


they demand too much change in him


he doesn't accept the supremacy of individual vision over the collective
















alan  sailer  you write


“ i respect people opinions more when they are graceful in defending them ”


my


reply



 you disgusting sickening hypocrite!


  campaigning for my removal from the new hczb because i showed you up!


  W A N K E R !



ok alan, i'm punishing you the only way i can,

you are up on the web as a hypocrite

for the next thirty years,

and who knows, three thousand or three million

and they will wonder who you are,

 immortal bad and sleazy behavior  ; o )


but nothing sinks in with toads like you does it?


alan i think you need to shoot more  breaking  fluorescent tubes,

the mercury will do you good


i'm not 100% sure that he is the photographer,

but it think it's him ,

he has that same mental curveball


btw he's a good photographer


actually i'm sure it's him,

he has that complete self assurance

about being right

and no perception

of any other point of view


:


o


)


(
















poetry makes things

more visible : 0 )
















poetry makes things more visible  : o  )
















yeah that story book character !

like jesus and mohammed, bad fairy tales  : o )


we need a common ground, supposedly you are concerned

about wether something is true or not?


so the question is, was this character  gautama buddha

  a real historical person?


i know for certain he wasn't because he's a  non existant composite

of autistic insight and neurotypical sociality.


that sort of person can never exist in real life.

  also anyone real about this is always in danger of being hung  : o )

and the sort of subservience given to him in the stories is complete bullshit !


the interesting thing about buddhism is historically

  the earliest carvings show that it was more a sort of merchant bank  : o )

  perhaps abit parallel to the knights templar  : o )



this  video  is well worth a watch


what's written above may seem without context,

it is in fact a reply to zafu frog


if they write complete crap or uninteresting,

i don't include it  : o )


 it's written in a way if you read the whole thing

you can work out the context


the above post is the result of years of research and thinking


i used to go to the auckland library when i was twenty

researching stuff on the bible and jesus


what the story with buddha is has come together in recent years

  with the very good research material on the web  : o )


as i have said before,

it's straightening out my own thinking

that i get with posting


like writing poems,

it opens things up

that have been closed off


  poetry makes things more visible  : o )
















i almost think   awakening   is irrelevant,

there is another vast road

that opens up : 0 )

those not on it or don't see it get worried about trivialities

like being criticised on a facebook page

or the destruction of whatever house of cards

   they have constructed about it all  : o )



see the point is the road is vast,

it is itself and speaks for itself

and you don't have to pretend,

prove anything to anyone else

or systemise it actually !

as you move more centrally on it,

   be prepared for alot of rejection  : o )
















i almost think  awakening  is irrelevant, there is another vast road that opens up  : o )  those not on it or don't see it get worried about trivialities like being criticised on a facebook page or the destruction of whatever house of cards
  they have constructed about it all  : o )


see the point is the road is vast, it is itself and speaks for itself and you don't have to pretend, prove anything to anyone else or systemise it actually ! as you move more centrally on it, be prepared for alot of rejection  : o )
















jeff foster


writes


thanks for listening, and this is the final warning about your language and the way you insult others who are just innocently trying to express themselves



  my


reply


   now is a car salesman innocent ; o)
















brad warner's got rid of me


and now jeff foster's


got rid of me


i


hope


to


find


not


another


:


o


)


(
















criticisms puncture illusions

and we don't want those punctured do we?

these so called  seekers after truth,

but in reality  the foulest deposits of build up

in the sewers :o )
















hey  i write from the buddha's lap  and you know it  : o )

















hey i write from the buddha's lap and you know it  : o )

















“the consciousness in you and the consciousness in me”


   is voynichy nonsense, nisargadatta was a second rate philosopher !  : o )



--------------



no conciousness in you, no conciousness in me, that makes 3  : o )


about as meaningful  : o )


oh, i forgot, that is such a touching deep and beautiful truth  : o ),


just don't mention money  : o )



-----------------



why doesn't anyone talk about back pain,



it's like these facebook comments


   are some sort of unreal filtered  winter  wonderland    : o )
















rebecca glenn writes


if it's a manic swing to be joy in my deep, traumatic suffering,
to be love in the midst of hate and someone who has abused me,
to be truth in the illusion......  (ed. blah blah  : o )


(ed. jeff fosters blog 14th october '12)



my


reply



rebecca, one can bullshit on these /boards/blogs endlessly,

who cares and who do you convince  : o ) ?

when i post i'm always very careful that it extends me,

i don't repeat and each post moves me a bit

into something more helpful

we all have problems

and they stay there if you are just the circle

that returns to the same spot each time  : o )

if there is a miracle it's being able to move from these problematic spots abit

one just has to read one's own posts carefully to know those spots  : o )

one of mine is  “competent depression” 

placing oneself at the service of egotistical idiots  : o ),

i think jeff has that issue too  : o )
















rebecca, one can bullshit on these /boards/blogs endlessly, who cares and who do you convince  : o )?.... when i post i'm always very careful that it extends me, i don't repeat and each post moves me a bit into something more helpful....we all have problems and they stay there if you are just the circle that returns to the same spot each time  : o ).............. if there is a miracle it's being able to move from these problematic spots abit............one just has to read one's own posts carefully to know those spots  : o ).......one of mine is "competent depression"........placing oneself at the service of egotistical idiots  : o ), i think jeff has that issue too  : o )
















₤ 21 million of  rubbish  !


unbelievable


:


o


)


(



worth say   150   50,000   ₤  imo  : o )

















natasha mitchell says


love's a strange force,  (deep sigh)  kneecap's us at the best of times  : o )



my


reply



nature lets you knee cap


back


:


o


)


(



 good  interview
















dr. newman is really saying something quite  profound , like these aggregating unicellular organisms that then striate according to natural fractal and similar physical principles are sorta recurve/recursive on evolution and species itself and are outside the boundaries of  survival for the fittest  in that
they open a new species potential space   : o )


they are


of


the


notion


of


species

a

s


well


as


being


species


themselves



check out his audio interview at the end too  : o )

















  “little raven”  writes   (ed. jeff fosters facebook page 13th october '12)


Andrew Levin a vision for a better future means DOING something
not just naval gazing as much spirituality purports.
We need to DO and BE not just BE if we want a better world.
Many of the programs of consciousness transformation I am aligned with
are about DOING as a result of being,
not just talking about the inner experience.
Teresa and John were DOERS
and I appreciate their contribution to humanity.



my reply


since all the world is a universe that springs from you,

what would be the context of a  “better world” ?

  “spiritual”  itself is a fiction

as well as the notions of “doing” or “being” ...

like the heirs of empire,

the improvements and successes of one generation

are squandered by the next

and i for one don't give a fig

for  “contributing”  to humanity  : o ),

a particularly stupid, toxic ape !
















little raven, since all the world is a universe that springs from you, what would be the context of a "better world"?  "spiritual" itself is a fiction as well as the notions of "doing" or "being"... like the heirs of empire, the improvements and successes of one generation are squandered by the next and i for one don't give a fig for "contributing" to humanity : o), a particularly stupid, toxic ape !
















if one is neurologically traumatized,

like schizophrenia or depression

or being on autistic spectrum

then life is a  “real time furnace”,



also the western diet now doesn't feed the brain at all

and leaves it traumatized

from malnourishment and enviromental toxicities,

something starting at conception btw,

and the real  “saints”  of history

like john of the cross, teresa of avila

and catherine of sienna

were all neurologically traumatized,

when the walls are destroyed,

the garden is revealed,

it's that simple and the actuality

of walking in the garden

and being the garden

is what it all about,

the problem with religion

and i include advaita,

neo-advaita, non-duality and zen

is a new wall is erected that is called  not a wall  

and spewing the cliches

and not writing your own experience

and original thoughts is that wall

called  not a wall  : o )
















if one is neurologically traumatized, like schizophrenia or depression or being on autistic spectrum then life is a  “real time furnace” ,  also the western diet now doesn't feed the brain at all and leaves it traumatized from malnourishment and enviromental toxicities, something starting at conception btw, and the real  “saints”  of history like john of the cross, teresa of avila and catherine of sienna were all neurologically traumatized, when the walls are destroyed, the garden is revealed, it's that simple and the actuality of walking in the garden and being the garden is what it all about, the problem with religion and i include advaita, neo-advaita, non-duality and zen is a new wall is erected that is called  not a wall  and spewing the clichés and not writing your own experience and original thoughts
is that wall called  not a wall  : o )
















nearly got run over in the ulverstone woolworth's car park

by a car tootling through to the bottle store in a hurry


they didn't like it when i caught up with them at the bottle store

and complained  (a woman driving)


one of the guys in the car already had had a few  (imo)  and was argumentative


in their thirties?
















 supposedly written by william james

under the influence of nitrous oxide  (lol)  : o )


hogamous, higamous


man is polygamous


higamous, hogamous


woman monogamous
















petals


blown


from


the


cherry


tree


twirling


like


butterflys


in


the


evening


sun

:


o


)
















petals


blown


from


the


cherry


tree


twirling


like


butterflys


in


the


evening


sun
















petals


blown


from


the


cherry


tree


twirling


like


butterflys


in


the


evening


sun



:


o


)
















petals


blown


from


the


cherry


tree


twirling


like


butterflys


in


the


evening


sun
















you start to be right


when everyone else tells you you are wrong


:


o


)


(
















you start to be right when everyone else tells you you are wrong


192kbs                                160 kps
















jeff foster writes


the touch of a loved one's hand. the warmth of a fresh mug of tea. a drop of morning dew quietly creeping down a blade of grass, nearly unnoticed.
these ordinary moments, given without asking.


and yet, in truth, these are not ‘ordinary moments’ at all. these are only doorways of grace, gateless gates of morning dew and birdsong and tossed apple cores, portals into an unknown world much like our own, witnessed without a witness,
prior to the upsurge of thought.


“enter here”,  they whisper in chorus,  “and lose your cleverness...”



my


reply



when the loved one's hand

coils and burns and corrodes like hot acid,

when the tea gives diarrhea

but the dew drop

sliding down a blade of grass

explodes like a supernova in the dawn light,

   that's enlightenment  : o )

















‘zafu frog’ writes that  rajneesh /osho is  cool shit


my


reply


93 rolls royces cool ! and all the promiscous sex !


not to mention dying on laughing gas/nitrous oxide/oxygen  : o )


you are a gullible sucker !


 interesting, rajneesh had  ms !



-------------------------


man there was alot more going on there than i thought  : o )


   seriously zafu frog , you have a fatal attraction for junk and trouble  : o )


  honestly  can't you tell rajneesh's  “message”  is  fancy sounding bullshit ?
















my reply to eileen's complaint

about my time

and what i do on the net

as being  “unreal”



that's audens land of the dead

and

quite real in it's own way


infinity is as unreal as real


it is equally unreal as real


perhaps more unreal


look a good  poem

like your one about  genteel shabby

has its strength

from being both unreal and real
















eileen writes


well he says he's non denominational

and doesn't belong to any religion

communes with god in meadows alone



my reply


lol, well thats about as rational as anything i have heard  : o )


obviously quite autistic
















so while everybody on this facebook  page

is schizophrenic including myself,

  you have to break  from the schizophrenia

by circumventing the quantum uncertainty principle

which states that observation inteferes with with what is being observed

  by making  a lot of  “ weak ”  observations

to build up a picture that in time/of time



and not of time


that shows how things are,


yet


does not distort


by the process of observation interfering

  with what is observed..............

where people go wrong

is they don't do this process

but in the manner of magpies and bower birds

just pick up the shiny stuff lying around

and lay it down to attract females

   or to pretty their nests  : o )
















so while everybody on this facebook  page  is schizophrenic including myself, you have to break from (the) schizophrenia by circumventing the quantum uncertainty principle which states that observation inteferes with with what is being observed, so by making a lot of  “ weak ”  observations to build up a picture that in time shows how things are, yet does not distort
by the process of observation interfering with what is observed..............


where people go wrong is they don't do this process

but in the manner of magpies and bower birds

just pick up the shiny stuff lying around

   and lay it down to attract females or to pretty their nests  : o )

















max earnst, 'the sun and the sea'


max ernst's painting,

the sun and the sea

la mer et le soleil !

that is the still point

between the intensity of schizophrenia

and the rational observation

   of how life works  : o )
















max earnst   the sun and the sea


max earnst, 'the sun and the sea'


that is the still point between the intensity of schizophrenia

and the rational observation of how life works  : o )
















why the advertizers can't figure

that by  not giving the option  to stop the ad flashing

earns hate rather than approval

  i don't know  : o )

















let me say it,

  presence

is a schizophrenic fiction

like  dark ets 
















when you censor you are on a drug !


   it's as crippling as a crack addiction i am afraid  : o )

















as you say


the


only


peace


is

in


the


grave


:


o


)


(
















as


you


say


the


only


peace


is


in


the

grave


:


o


(
















keep me away from near death experiences

because i'd never come back  willingly  (page 3)  : o (
















keep me away from near death experiences because i'd never come back willingly


:


o


)


(