To Seek A Love That’s True

You treat me like some half-dollar screw hound me to go out to work and bring back something new pretend you do not see me but keep me in your view;

I see ambition- 

ambition at full throttle driving you- 

while I seek a peaceful ride- one inside a love that’s true.

Would it help if I told I am the Light 

returning to save you?

I am truly outcast.

Feel so alone and blue.

No prophet sent me. This is not a place to settle down for I was born to roam.

If this is how you feel about me I believe 

it’s time I go back home.

 The Takers

Nations are to peace as toothless paper tigers are to playful children. When will we ever learn it’s never been the fault of love it is the mad lunacy of nations, boundaries, courts, kings and all the rest of it. It is therefore ambition makes all the tragic legendary stories of some imagined conflict between love and honor, between love and duty, between love and decency where conflict has never been. The Emperor has been always naked. Illusion alone clothes him. A taker. A child knows this to be so. When the game ends…really ends…peace is right here present for all beings. And it is known by all then that peace is not the absence of conflict, conflict is the absence of peace. Violence grows like weeds when people turn their backs on peace. Cease trying to end conflict (that is like trying to shovel darkness out a window) and try for a change to switch on the light of peace.

       Our Task must be to free ourselves, by widening our circle of compassion, to embrace all living things. Albert Einstein

 WHAT IS IT YOU WANT?

Do you want to know what it is you do not know, or not? Do you prefer to remain ignorant as you believe that way is safer for you than knowing?

Sounds to me like you are saying you want the unknown to be revealed but first you want to know what it is going to be, is that so?

Do you not see clearly how stupid that is? See how you have canceled what it is you ask for in the same breath?  It was promised long ago, “Ask and you shall receive” but it was not suggested you will receive what you ask not for.

I had a friend once tell me she wanted both knowledge and ignorance. I pitied her. Does she want a ridiculous and trivial thing or does she want something deeper? You are confused when you say I do not know but want to know but first want a guarantee that I will like it. Now you see clearly, make use of it for its value is beyond measure. Remain in clarity.

 It wasn’t a thing that had been learnt through choice; it had come about through sheer necessity. Anonymous

                               Does Life Need Saving?

There is a phrase (saved my life). DID I HAVE LIFE or DID LIFE HAVE ME? Which reminds us now who among us knows what life is? Yet nobody denies its existence? Can ELECTRICITY ever be lost or DESTROYED? That is the question. 

How big life? And is it a thing which can be possessed by some vain, dying entity named “me”? What would be the nature of such an entity as one that could possess life? Is it not so that life brings to a body consciousness enough to even ask these questions? What can make or destroy consciousness?

People are so conceited as to speak of matters concerning which they are in complete darkness as if everybody listening knows the matter clearly and thoroughly. It is often said by the ignorant that God made us that way...stupid. It is such arrogance that is back of suffering, not death. Such is the enduring draw of every tragedy of literature. It could have been avoided. Vanity, vanity.  All is vanity. And that is funny and freeing, not sad.

Is it not possible at least that life itself lives and all other inquiries follow and depend upon that fact? In death nothing much happens. And you can even say bye-bye before you die and mean it.

It is no tragedy that there is no answer to a prayer however fervently delivered for electricity to please surrender forth its power on behalf of a fictitious entity. Recall Pinocchio? Any boy who wants to be a real boy is one, by Golly!

Wake up. There are more links in your brain than there are stars in the observable Universe. Meditation changes the cells of your body and the contents of those cells change.

 What Would The King Say?

I recently watched the award-winning film “The King’s Speech” and enjoyed it. It is based on history as we are taught it. The acting is superb and the film making first class and it is well written. Later, that evening, I had a sudden urge to rewrite the whole story myself. This is going to be fun. And here it is-

It is 1934 Britain. The wife of a tongue-tied prince seeks out a specialist who has helped people who have lost the ability to speak clearly recover. She fears her husband might one day be called upon to be king although he is not first in line to succeed the reigning monarch, King George. She and the Prince have two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. Now, this woman was most reluctant to marry the tongue tied prince in the first place and turned him done more than once because she hated the idea of being a public figure and being robbed of a private life should he become king. Everyone who has studied the Modern History of England knows already that her husband does become King when his brother advocates the throne to marry the woman he loves. And we know Elizabeth became and remains to this day Queen upon the death of her father, also a King George. We also know that the once tongue tied prince recovers through the love of the teacher and wins World war II. Hurrah!

But, what if the teacher had stopped teaching for some reason and the stammerer had failed to recover and refused to be a clown king? Elizabeth was a minor. A war was upon the land. The wife we mentioned earlier who sought out a gifted teacher for her husband, the prince, as Queen mother might be in charge until Elizabeth reached the age of majority? But she hates the idea and refuses. So, is a younger brother to the stammerer to become king? The process is stupefying. I see the stage set perfectly for a revelation in all of Europe and beyond that causes people to rethink the whole circumstance of monarchs and what-not and see the absurdity of it all which is behind the impending war worldwide and about to kill millions including babies and mothers and grandmothers and, so, just cancel it on the obvious reason that most if not all people want a private life of their own making and so war is just obsolete.

The movie I just watched was justified as an historical account of bravery and loyalty at a time of peril which enabled the mad war to be won at tremendous cost in human life and suffering by us…the ones whose history tells we are good and righteous people. But it might have unfolded otherwise as I see it today. How many times might we have just barely missed the ending forever of war among humans on Earth and not been aware of opportunity knocking. Is that not a form of

blindness? So we return to the same movie again and again. 

  So long as we remain blind to our role, each one of us, in the making of blindness to the truth that freedom is not choice but clarity of thinking and do something drastic to change our own individual thinking it will go on and on and on until we destroy ourselves in a tragically grotesque manner.