Nothing Burger

It’s all a big nothing.

“Where’s the beef?”

Sure, many things occur;

pleasure, pain, satisfaction, disappointment,

anything you can think of.

We want, we don’t want, we don’t care.

It’s the Homosap’s dilemma: trying to make

sense of it all, fit it into a nice, neat package,

digestible, understandable, doable.

Lost in thinking we know,

derailed by circumstances beyond our control,

turning to belief for certainty that is not there.

Any of this sound familiar?

Round and round she goes…where she stops,

nobody knows.

Seeing reality as illusion may give some relief.

Not conceptualizing, but actually seeing it as such,

which is not as easy as you might think because 

we believe we really, solidly, exist.

If that was true, we would never die.

Even the long lived gods don’t exist forever.

Change is the only thing we can be sure of.

Oh yes, suffering, we can bet on that.

If you examine existence you know these things

are true.

Common sense means seeing things as they are,

without wishful thinking and interpretation.

Can you have that, please?

That’s all that Buddhism is, really, not that I’m

trying to convert you to another dogma.

As the bumper sticker says: “Buddhism…eventually.”

It’s just a matter of waking up and looking around

like you did when you were born before 

the brainwashing began. 

“Open your eyes” as someone is constantly saying.

Meanwhile, I expect nice thunderstorms today,

in the midst of my heartbreak for the world,

especially the way it’s going.

Poor Homosap…if he would only stop and

smell the gnosis.

Even though samsara (confusion) is endless, 

I vow to liberate all beings from its grasp.

A tall order, yes, but, fortunately, I’ve got 

forever to git ‘er done.

That should be enough time to show everyone 

there’s no meat between the buns.