Eggtooth Breaks Open
"Belief in anything is simply a way of labeling the mystery." Chogyam Trungpa. (Continuously Morphing List of Quotes: APRIL 08; November, 2009, July 2010, June 2017)
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Monday, August 23, 2021
The Purge of Evil. (November, 2011)
For everything there is a season.
This is the time of hell on earth.
This is the time of the flowering of evil.
The Lords of Materialism have seized power…
It is their time.
The karma they accumulate from their evil deeds
Will rid the world of them for a long time….
They will not be reborn as human.
It is the time of the purge of evil.
Remain human!
Don’t get sucked into their trip!
This has to happen now!
Remain human! Remain human!
Don’t give into their bloody game!
What goes around comes around!
Cultivate compassion!
The leaders are lost in lust!
Their self-destruction is inevitable!
Friday, August 20, 2021
Expect The Unexpected
Expect the unexpected.
You're in for a surprise.
Even with these words
you might be shocked.
If someone you know and trust
told you evrything you know is wrong,
can you even imagine that?
Yet, it is about to happen soon.
How do I know?
If I was a prophet,
how would you know?
Still waiting for Jesus?
Outside the box?
What if someone took yours,
turned it over and shook it
'til you fell out?
Are you ready?
Walking The Floor
They're working on the house next door...
I step out onto the balcony in my underwear....
no one seems to care.
"That's nothing from this world."
I hear on the radio
while I clean the refrigerator.
There's a storm out the window
heading this way...
always, this time of year.
The hard beat of techno...
tomato juice and tabasco...
ready for anything but nothing happens.
Waiting, like we do in Mexico,
for friends to come over
and the rain.
Saturday, August 14, 2021
Cappuccino At La Miga In The Kali Yuga
It all depends on how you look at it.
Open air restaurant,
a tent really, surrounded by lush green.
Smiling the smile of the goofy damned,
whether we do or we don’t…lol!
Living the punchline on a thin lifeline
wasting time, but, how can I since there’s
no tomorrow?
Foam on the cappuccino
dusted with cinnamon
like the world
sprinkled with beings
both insubstantial.
Next will be the main course…
the shoe fall
the supernova
the counterinsurgency
the paradigm shift
2012 Redux.
Meanwhile, I wait in Mexico because
that’s what we do here.
A three block line waiting to get jabbed…
Get the jab!
Don’t get the jab!
Fly away in a balloon!
It will all turn out about the same
anyway.
Thursday, August 12, 2021
A Little Bit More Than The Same
“The usual”, to Bill the bartender, my friend.
The blond at the end of the bar looked the same
as every other blond that ever sat there…
with only a different name.
Each day ran into the next,
a familiar deck of cards.
I wasn’t hedging my bets.
I ‘been all in since being born.
The bar was a Bukowski cliche.
The patrons, true Beats, played their games.
Thrown out one night, back the next,
as if nothing had ever happened.
One night, an unusual blonde at the end of the bar,
Annie Lennox-like, a man-eater? A mystery…
of the moment…the night’s entertainment maybe.
She got into a drinking contest with a rugged
looking man. After ten minutes or so, everyone
still conscious were enthralled. He looked to be
250, she maybe 110.
Logic said she would have to fall.
After an hour of slamming shots, she still looked
cool as ice. The hombre was sweating, red and
teetery and pissed off. Another half-hour
and the brute slid off his chair, unconscious
on the floor. Our Heroine watched him fall,
smiled and lit a Rothmans. Without a word
she rose, turned, smiled and nodded to
everyone, and walked, steady as a gazelle,
out of the bar…
…she gave flabbergastery a new name.
She was a little bit more than the same.
Monday, August 9, 2021
Raging Bull(shit)
A war of words.
No man’s plan.
New world disorder.
A thousand points of blight.
The age of unreason.
Waiting for the shoe fall.
Sunday, August 8, 2021
The Mind Needs To Be Trained
“If you think that confusion will clarify itself,
you should understand that samsara is
notorious for being endless.” Gampopa
Our minds have been trained from birth,
by family, environment and education.
This is the default training we receive
just because we happen to be there.
Our habits and proclivities are the result
of this training, which should be called
programming or indoctrination rather
than training. We have little choice in
the matter.
The training of the mind comes in many
forms. There is military training, scientific
training, training that focuses the mind on
different subjects leading to proficiency.
This is training the mind for a specific
purpose, but has nothing to do with
training the mind itself to see more clearly
and accurately. Training the mind itself
happens through various disciplines: yoga,
meditation, contemplation are among the
important ones.
Training the mind for a specific purpose is
the same as training a dog to roll over
or fetch. It has nothing to do with evolving
the mind to a greater level of perception
and wisdom. This has been known in the
East for millennia, but the West has had a
hard time catching on or catching up.
Various mental disciplines have been
introduced to the West since the sixties,
with many people deriving benefit from
them, but, over all, scientific materialism
remains the religion of developed societies
due to the momentum of the past. Trusting
that science can solve all humanity’s
problems is just another belief.
An example of the shortcomings of default
training can be exemplified in Ted Kaczynski,
the so called “Unabomber”. Highly educated,
he became a nut case in a cabin in Oregon.
So much for the Renaissance Man.
The confusion endemic in the world today
is exacerbated by the fact that many minds
that are out there are reacting to events
beyond their comprehension and that
contradict their rote beliefs. Their minds are
not grounded in reality, though many seem
to be starting to see through the fog. This is
proof that it’s possible to wake up from
our conditioning.
Saturday, August 7, 2021
Thursday, August 5, 2021
The Sun Went Around Again
Familiar sun spots from sky lights
march across the floor.
I move a curtain, turn on a fan,
like every other day before.
Entertained by the nerves in patterns
on a screen, with images blown out
of proportion to create the story line.
This can’t really be what’s happening
in the world, but let’s pretend and go
along with it.
Meanwhile the world spinning out loud
could care less about the big day.