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pulled up out of the mystical muck by the ear

slapped a few times

can we find plain language
for a godless celebration of infinite

​ordinary life?

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a fanatical goal of “no suffering”
or a violent ideal of “peace of mind”
would postpone the inherent and universal righteousness of being
 
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tragically?
happily
this
(impermanence-truth)
will not be reduced
to an artifact of language
or memory
 
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the alchemy of anxiety-into-peace has no element of continuation
and so, no patent
 
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notice
fearful
grasping
sensation
in
gut
 
radiates
to
limbs
 
notice
how
breath stops for it
like
waiting for a bus

no bus
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breathing resumes
 
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happily infected by all sales pitches
return everything
 
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mindfulness? mindful?
who? of what? when? where?

in this gut-instant
zero-dimension pops everything like a bubble
 
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“no” = “yes” = “crazy wisdom”
 
simply note the internal “no” (of which the external “no” is a mere reflection)
 
and note its voidness
 
and quit kissing ass
 
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the gaze implies its own periphery
but pinpoint focus is an illusion
so the gaze can only be peripheral
 
the gaze is autonomous
the visual splash impersonal
until verbalized and then it’s bowdlerized
 
the gaze is a two-way street
you thought it didn’t look back?
that’s you too!
 
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the coddling industry is for the unweaned
and self-coddling in a no-self realm is degenerate
 
but self is self? persistent fear-greed?
a verb really: fearing-grasping-selfing
 
incurable, never grown out of
but--but!--devoid of quantity
 
(“pay me” says the coddler, a high-living wet nurse in the geriatric ward)
 
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the bound person is the free person

the free person is bound

don’t follow
 
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we are composed of not-us
sustained by not-us
surrounded by not-us
absorbed by not-us
so in conclusion not-us is us and we are not ourselves
 
which makes us immortal in a comprehensively unhelpful way
 
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the book is here
the teaching is here
the lesson is here
the truth is here
the destination is here
 
bondage-liberation, the ordinary-extraordinary--right here
 
pinpoint location: where feargreed coils and recoils in the head-heart-gut-groin-footsole
 
exactly where you always land
 
convenient!

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one barrier: one gate

celebrate
 
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there’s been a misunderstanding
 
there will be no correction
 
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to whom do you owe deference in the present moment?

to what?
 
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this has nothing to do with your behavior
 
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the snake swallows its tail until it gags awake
 
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