Haunting Karma

What is it about family….

nevermind.

No wonder Buddha said

you had to leave the family

before the path could begin.

Which doesn’t mean

they ever go away, no,

they stay; 

haunting karma.

My brother and me,

Cain and Abel…

I still don’t know

who is which.

Step Dancing

The step dancing of Nova Scotia and

elsewhere derives from a local 

contraption called a “whirly-gig”, a wind

driven puppet whose legs are usually

the only things that move. Hence, the 

dancers dance with their arms to their

sides, as if made of wood, their faces

expressionless…life imitating art.

The music would be violin and usually

two other instruments; guitar and 

keyboard…bass and guitar…any other 

two. The music would be at three 

speeds; slow, medium and fast…

different speeds of the wind.

The people had been magically shaped 

by the place, by the nature there, to 

create this music and this dance. There

is natural alchemy. “Getting back to 

nature” is not just some threadbare 

boomer joke. The “Great Awakening” 

means dancing in the streets…..again.

What’s Next And What’s Left

The same few tunes

over and over

endlessly.

Up and down rollercoaster,

emotions, events, jokes,

an astrodome full of clowns,

’til the fat lady sings,

’til the last convulsive octopus,

’til it’s time to close the bar,

walk the plank, 

open the last present,

burn the files,

sell the house,

jump in the lake, eat some cake,

do a head fake and disappear

behind the curtain.

The Whore Of Ego

Why whore?

because you think you have 

to pay for love

and you always want more.

I could go on for a while, but,

you know, 

there ain’t no profit in it.

Hunchback Alchemist

Awash in the mists of time

buccaneer of space of mind

Cosmic Kamikaze Kachina

Conversationalarialist ballerina

Applause, if you like, 

no jazz hands…

there’s plenty more nothing

where this came from.

I’m just having fun with my mind

and maybe yours…

a dangerous thing…

objects in the mirror may be

more real than they appear.

A toast to all sentient beings,

in that we are all toast 

in the scheme of things!

So, put your big boy pants on

and man up, because ain’t no

snowflakes hereabouts…no time

for P.C. shenanigans. 

Just the straight skinny, the truth,

no chaser, whether you like it or not.

How’s about ‘dem apples?

"All we're looking for is a few good......lines."

Nobody loves me and I’m going to die…

…but, it’s........good.

Enjoying my life sentence.

As ye may be so, so shall ye reap…maybe.

Why do I look up automatically when I think:

“Help me!”….?

“Everybody’s got a big ‘But….’” Pee Wee Herman

And, everybody’s got a big “And….”

First, you have to touch. Then, you can feel.

(There are two types of people:

those that divide things into two types,

and those that don’t)

1. It’s better to get a little bit of something good than nothing at all.
2. It’s better to get  nothing at all than something bad.

There are only two things in life:

1. What’s next

2. What’s left.

Comrade

You want to control

your own little cocoon

which you’re welcome to.

But, don’t ever tell me 

what to do.
Moon in Virgo.

Jeffrey Peters: In Memoriam

Love First, Jeffrey…it goes before you

on your journey, and follows you in

loving memory.

I’m so delighted to have attended

your final party…I guess it meant

goodby.

What was offered that afternoon,

from all your guests, was a 

fitting tribute…what a great host…

little did we know, but then,

who knows when the moment

will arrive?

I’m a crackpot philosopher myself,

so, our eccentric hearts resonate

in delight of the basis of design.

Row, row, row, now, your boat

gently down the stream.

Equal Opportunity Ignorer

I don’t pay attention to half

of what I see…

it’s not for me.

The other half, 

what makes me feel good, 

better, best,

whether real or a fantasy,

I think it’s all for me.

If I don’t see you, 

don’t feel bad, it’s just,

for me, you are not there.

They say ignorance is bliss, 

and I can tell you it is.

Just don’t get in the way

of what I want to see.

Life, Leverage And The Push For Impeachment

They are trying to raise a lead balloon of
impeachment with their own hot air...
(if they only knew which end was up).

By the time this is over,

Congress will be Comedy Central...
Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Pelosi:
a Schiff sideshow sham scam, sleight
of hand, smoke and mirrors monkey
shines of primitive, ape-headed sub-
humans just smart enough to cause
themselves worlds of trouble, as they
sink into the void of their vacuous,
hopeless plans.

My Teacher’s Instructions

Over the course of studying with Chogyam 

Trungpa, he figured out how to communicate 

with me. Once I asked him a question when

I was with him. He gave me a long answer, by

the end of which, I was on another planet…

just by being with him, my mind was gone.

He knew I was a poet, so, he resorted to 

instructing me through that means of 

communication…one liners, usually. Over the

fifteen years I knew him when he was alive,

I had a meditation interview once or twice a 

year, where he would say something. I would

take what he said and try to do it. The last

sentence on this list was at the last interview

I had with him in 1978. It became a koan for 

me for the next thirty five years, until I finally

realized what he meant.

"You can't afford to be lazy

Don’t go too fast.

Don't get bogged down.

Forget about the past.

Cultivate a sense of humor.

Needs more practice.

Pain when you’re around me 

seems to be necessary.

No more questions

I don’t see any more problems.”

A-prehension

Entities that experience through the senses 

but have not yet realized Buddha-hood are

called sentient beings. These beings exist

in a state of apprehension, meaning their 

egos, (survival instinct in animals), get in the 

way of prehension, seeing things as they are,

in order that ego may survive and/or be 

augmented by the perceived phenomena.

The survival instinct, which develops naturally

into ego in humans, is a governor or limiting 

factor, whereby the ego struggles to fit 

experience into the dogma of it’s beliefs, and

learned assumptions. The ego fundamentally

suspects it doesn’t exist, from which 

apprehension springs, and also is the seed of

enlightenment, bodhicitta. From the desire to 

understand springs philosophy, dogmatic 

religion as well as scientific materialism, none

of which are helpful in knowing anything much.

Feeling separate, alienated from our lives is a

symptom generated by this apprehension that 

arises from the belief in a self. It is the seed of 

enlightenment because it is the inspiration of 

the beginning the Buddhist path, the path of the 

dissolution of the illusion of ego. 

Some people say: “What would I do without 

ego?” In Freudian terms, a healthy ego is the sign

of a healthy psyche. In reality, the illusion of self

is the only fundamental problem that human 

beings have. Without it, there is no time lag 

between prehension, intellect/intelligence, and

action. A dancer, a rap poet, and a professional 

basketball player don’t have to think before they 

act. In fact, they wouldn’t be able to perform 

those functions if they tried to think about them 

at the  same time. Actors cannot be in character 

and  refer back to themselves (“how am I doing?”) 

at the same time. Sometimes actors have the 

problem of not being able to get out of character.

Their character becomes their ego. A complex

recognized by Freud, called the “Jarry complex”,

was named after the actor who adopted his

character, Pere Ubu, and wandered the streets of

Paris as that character. George C, Scott had a 

nervous breakdown after playing Patton. Daniel 

Day Lewis had problems after “Gangs of New 

York.” 

Unenlightened humans have personalities, 

characters, that they have developed over the 

course of their upbringing. It doesn’t matter if 

that character thinks they are the greatest 

person in the world, or the most miserable 

wretch. Whether positive or negative, any 

flavor of self reference is just ego delusion. 

Shambhalatlan

“Atlan” is a suffix in Nahuatl meaning “place of”.

Shamhala is said to be a kingdom, secret and 

not so secret, existing yet hidden, in which all 

the inhabitants are enlightened. The pueblo I live in,

Tepoztlan, in Mexico, is as close as I’ve come to

such a place on earth where I have lived.

I was staying Oaxaca for a winter years ago, and 

I visited Tepoztlan where a Shambhala (Buddhist)

community had been established some years 

earlier. The first two mornings there, while I was 

eating breakfast alone in a restaurant, I found 

myself in tears. At first, I wondered why this was 

happening, until I realized it was because, for the

first time in my life, I felt I was home. 

Yada, yada, yada, I returned to the USA for a year,

then, the next year, moved to Tepoztlan to live, full

time. The process of living here for years has 

slowed me down from the intense days of my job

as a plumber. And it has been a nurturing environ-

ment for my meditation practice and my writing.

So, why do I use the term Shambhalatlan? I 

certainly wouldn’t avow that the inhabitants here

are all enlightened. On the other hand, there is a 

natural goodness, discrimination, and acceptance

of the people here that creates an atmosphere 

that pervades the place, and is, in fact, quite 

magical. An interesting phenomena that people 

have noticed here is that many people who visit 

have a strong reaction to the place, either falling in 

love with it, as what happened to me, or, finding

the energy not to their liking and having to leave;

a self selecting quality.

I heard of a prophesy about Tepoztlan. Perhaps 

thirty to forty years ago, a man asked a taxi driver,

at night, to take him to a certain place. This place

was in the middle of nowhere. The man asked the 

driver to stop, and then said to him something like:

“When the great sadness happens, Tepoztlan will

be protected.” Then, the man walked into the night,

like all these cool stories end.

Veteran's Day 2019 (and the new American Revolution)

Yeah, well, if you'd listened to the poets, 

you might not have needed the soldiers. 

The soldiers are needed because of a 

fundamentally compromised education 

system beginning around the turn of the 20th

century, when students studying American 

History were paid to go to school, in 

exchange for changing the way American 

History was taught in order to further 

power's agenda. The corruption of the 

education system today is the continuity 

of that effort. Without EDUCATION, what 

the Patriots are trying to (and will do) now, 

would not have been possible. There 

would have had to have been a military 

coup against Obama in his second term. 

The reason the Patriots are taking the 

path they have, is that they realized that 

the revolution, without an EDUCATED and 

awakened populace, would have resulted 

in mass hysteria and many, many deaths. 

Are soldiers heros and to be honored and 

respected? Absolutely. But, as Sun Tzu 

and other warriors that were trained not 

just to fight, but also to think, have said in 

the past; the greatest warriors are those 

that win the battle without a fight.

Finish line

Enlightenment’s the finish line;

you can’t get there from here.

Once you know the race is done,

enlightenment is there.

“I can Write A Poem Anytime I Want”

Let’s see if this is true.

Let’s see if I’m lying to myself.

Of course, maybe nothing I’ve ever written

is actually a poem, maybe just

discursive gymnastics, 

verbal theatrics

goofy language,

sparks from the void,

monsters from the Id,

rants of an old man

with too much time 

on his hands.

I do love words the way some love

colors (I do love colors)

music (I do love music)

sports (……………nah).

I’m a comedian wanna be

transitioning from serious comedy

(an oxymoron! I love those!)

As the need to explain to others

grinds to a halt, over time,

because of diminishing returns,

and the hand becomes my mouthpiece,

the joy of bringing joy

seems more fun, and

better communication,

like fresh food instead of packaged,

like reality instead of entertainment,

(reality television, another oxymoron!)

and everything falls into place

spontaneously, with little effort,

“Frankly, my Dear, 

I’d rather be eating a hot dog”

becomes part of:

“Eat, shit, and sleep….

anything else is none of your business”,

Meaning: everything is perfect.

It all depends on how you look at it.

In conclusion,

something just happened between

computer keys, my mind, and a screen.

If this was a joke,

it would have a punchline now.

I guess it isn’t.

Quid Pro Woes

Dems projecting their quids

oh no

there’s something wrong here

can you feel it, Hal?

Short circuiting in public

emotionally skinned,

but you have to give them credit

for keeping their charade running

as long as they have, although,

their suffering the last three years, 

through the defeat of all their plans

is nothing to what’s coming: 

an endless stream of tears

The Greatest Show On Earth

"Trump may be a carney, but he's not a con."
White Fang Lama

The Vietnam war was the first war that

was televised. Because of that, Americans

saw what the war was and what their 

government was up to. Because the public

saw that, protest against the war increased

exponentially. Seeing that, since then, the

American intelligence apparatus has used

television to try to control the narrative, what

viewers saw, in order to steer them to a

particular conclusion.

The show impeachment of Donald Trump

is a grand advertising scheme of the deep

state by the radical Left, to convince 

Americans to adopt their perennial failed

policies. But one thing stands in the way:

Trump himself. No one says Trump is perfect

or enlightened. What Trump is, is an 

intelligent, articulate, powerful human being 

with truly human values. He genuinely loves 

people more than power. He speaks to the 

common man direct truth, which is like 

poison to the mind control manipulators. 

Many Americans, myself included, have 

thought the political process in America was 

corrupted and not worth participating with 

for many years. To hear a leader speak the 

truth for a change is something Americans

have had to get used to for the past three

years. And more and more Americans have

woken to the fact that perhaps the USA can

restore the principles that the country was

founded upon.

This “Great Awakening” is taking. place in

real time and involves the entire Rothchilds

dominated (at his time) world. The USA is 

still the only superpower left in the world.

China, which has been vampire-ing the 

American economy for decades, was in line

to be the new one until Trump started putting

a stop to it. The American people are being

given back control of their own country, which

started when they elected Trump. No wonder

the dynastic cabal of the Clintons, Bushes, 

and Obama are freaking out in total panic.

They are losing control and their evil is being

exposed. The mask is being removed and the

horror that these people are is being seen by

all, which is something from which they will

never recover. The cat’s out of the bag.

Get some popcorn and a nice drink…sit back

and relax. The revolution is being televised..in
real time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHxhQPOO2c

Wlll there be a second civil war In the USA?

If there is a civil war, which I doubt, it won't last long.

 Why? Because Trump has two things: 1. Control of 

and support by the military. 2. 60-70% of Americans, 

most of whom own guns and  support Trump. 

What? Soros is going to arm Antifa? They wouldn't 

even know which end of a gun to point!  Do they 

have an army of MKULTRA soldiers to throw at the 

military? NOT!  These people are stupid, and weak. 

They've only been in power by default, because 

much of America had given up on the political system.  
But when Trump came along, all that changed..

Three Ring Caucus

Democrat impeachment travesty

all show and no tell

the clowns are in charge

Patriots watching

not laughing.

Millennials Vs. The Children Of Trump

The generation growing up now and 

beginning to become aware of the war 

between the deep state and patriotic, 

sane America will be the opposite of 

Democrat produced lazy, worthless

Millennials. They will be so inspired by 

the battle against world evil that they 

will be energized into being part of this 

movement, this wave, this storm that 

will sweep away the powerful egos 

bent on destroying the world. They will 

know the difference between right and

wrong, discover their own power of

common sense. And the lesson learned 

from these times, no matter how long it 

takes and how painful it may be, will be

the memory, the insurance, that will 

inoculate the United States Of America

from such treachery ever arising again.