Breadcrumbs 2018


Leftovers

 

Dead poets and such will undoubtedly influence many a thinker’s existence,

But allow them to run it from the grave?

No.

 

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Any cosmos is indifferent to its myriad dreams, yours included.

The truth is that only imagination cares, only imagination bothers.

Your existence is a joke, an absurdity, to which the most sober response

Is a great dollop of irony and doubt, especially toward your fictional persona.

 

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The Faceless One is the one who looks within

And unequivocally perceives the indivisibility of all creation.

The one who pierces through all illusion, through all space, through all time,

And logically, rationally, without doubt, discerns there is no other.

 

* * * *

 Words can be tethered to many concepts,

So always best to without doubt define them

If you would have your meaning and intent clear.

 

* * * *

Existence is but an ever-changing dream

That is incessantly tagged with every conceivable notion.

But the ephemeral awareness each and every mind every moment truly is,

Is most definitely, without doubt, exactly the same.

 

* * * *

There is only one thing left not to doubt,

And in that, the you that never was,

Becomes the you that ever is.

 

* * * *

The senses are but mortal devices fashioned by evolution

That are but streaming smokescreens to the indelible, indivisible reality.

Mirages imagined by a nature-nurture mind snared in its dreamy fabrication of time.

Only through doubt, only through detachment, will true Self be discerned.

 

* * * *

To wander as you please, to stop and examine whatever you please,

In whatever way you please, for as long as you please, to whatever end you please,

Is the way of the maverick, the questioner, the skeptic, the cynic, the doubter, the critical thinker.

 

* * * *

Doubt, skepticism, cynicism, uncertainty, critical thinking,

Naturally evolve in a mind inordinately bent on unlocking its mystery,

A mind resolved on discerning the reality of consciousness emanating from within.

 

* * * *

What is that which is called god by so many names but an impersonal all and nothing,

An implausible totality so absolute, so timeless, as to be everything and nothing all the while.

An eternal quantum mystery so intrinsic as to be and not be simultaneously in every pointless point.

How is it humankind is not genuinely, beyond doubt, humbled by its relative insignificance?

 

* * * *

How is it even remotely possible

For anyone to be as asleep and undoubting at the end

As they were in the beginning?

 

* * * *

In the pure nihilistic mind,

The mind that doubts everything,

The mind that no longer seeks meaning,

The mind that no longer requires purpose,

The mind that no longer acknowledges dogma,

The mind that no longer maintains principles,

The mind that no longer asserts knowledge,

The mind that literally believes nothing,

The first and last freedom reigns.

 

* * * *

You are the indelible mystery come unto life.

Do not be so arrogant, so narcissistic, that you do not discern

That you are not the only you that is, that has ever been, that will ever be.

The same you abides in every animate and inanimate form that might ever be concocted.

Every part and particle, every chasm between, it is all the same indivisible, singular, unknowable you.

Everything seen, everything heard, everything tasted, everything smelt, everything felt.

Everything created, everything preserved, everything destroyed.

Whether you tread softly, or harshly, or not at all,

Know, without doubt, without disquiet,

That there is not, has never been, will never be, any other.

 

* * * *

What some call negativity, pessimism, skepticism, doubt, cynicism,

To the rational mind of the critical thinker, is merely the way it is.

 

* * * *

Doubt.

More doubt.

Even more doubt.

 

Soundbites

 

The benefit of great doubt, and the inevitable process of negation, is a free mind.

 

* * * *

The key ingredient to discerning the ultimate reality is a heady dollop of doubt.

 

* * * *

Doubt, more doubt, even more doubt.

 

 

Breadcrumbs

 

An aphoristic collage,

A puzzle jigged, a puzzle sawed,

An assorted potpourri of motley thoughts,

A mystic drunkard’s trail of doubt,

An epic, long and winding.

 

* * * *

You would no doubt have them entertain a different way,

Were it possible for enough to hear what you have to say.

 

* * * *

Once upon a time, the feminine mystic was unbelievably spellbinding.

Once upon a time, the masculine virility was irrepressible.

But alas, oh well, so it goes, things change.

And the correlation, beyond-any-and-all-doubt palpable.

 

* * * *

What a wretched statement about this mortal existence

That this mind derives so much pleasure from a cynical stance.

Some sort of Nero-watching-Rome-burn thing, no doubt.

 

* * * *

Am I absurd beyond all doubt, or simply a jester, a life force willing to lend itself

To exploring, to plumbing the unfathomable depths as deeply, and in such manner,

As the singular, indivisible, indelible aloneness of the given body-mind will allow.

 

 

59 Moments to the Way It Is (And Is Not)

The Scribe’s Guide to the Great Whatthe#$*!

 

59 Moments to Me, My Self, and I

59 Moments to Truth or Consequences

59 Moments to Diddly-Squat

59 Moments to Okey-Dokey

59 Moments to Eternity

59 Moments to Oblivion

59 Moments to Laissez-Faire

59 Moments to So It Goes

59 Moments to Fearlessness

59 Moments to Timelessness

59 Moments to Truth

59 Moments to Born Anew

59 Moments to Nirvana

59 Moments to Passé

59 Moments to Godlessness

59 Moments to God

59 Moments to Rationalism

59 Moments to Existentialism

59 Moments to Annihilation

59 Moments to Common Sense

59 Moments to Discernment

59 Moments to Critical Thinking

59 Moments to Gumption

59 Moments to Grit

59 Moments to Resourcefulness

59 Moments to Imagination

59 Moments to Inventiveness

59 Moments to Creativity

59 Moments to Wit

59 Moments to Born Again

59 Moments to Ingenuity

59 Moments to Enterprise

59 Moments to Reality

59 Moments to Absurdity

59 Moments to Humility

59 Moments to Hopelessness

59 Moments to Minimalism

59 Moments to Evermore

59 Moments to Hedonism

59 Moments to Discipline

59 Moments to Narcissism

59 Moments to Ecstasy

59 Moments to Heaven

59 Moments to Hell

59 Moments to Buddha

59 Moments to Null and Void

59 Moments to Emptiness

59 Moments to Nothingness

59 Moments to Now

59 Moments to Here

59 Moments to Here Now

59 Moments to Negation

59 Moments to Anarchy

59 Moments to Skepticism

59 Moments to Cynicism

59 Moments to Pessimism

59 Moments to Doubt

59 Moments to Nihilism

59 Moments to Bullshit

59 Moments to Om

59 Moments to Quantum

59 Moments to Abyss

59 Moments to Agnostic

59 Moments to Atheism

59 Moments to Freethinking

59 Moments to Belief

59 Moments to Death

59 Moments to Eternal Life

59 Moments to Nonbelief

59 Moments to Illusion

59 Moments to Delusion

59 Moments to Matrix

59 Moments to Craving

59 Moments to Satisfaction

59 Moments to Contentment

59 Moments to Immortality

59 Moments to Solitude

59 Moments to No Other

59 Moments to Detachment

59 Moments to Singularity

59 Moments to Totality

59 Moments to Absoluteness

59 Moments to Indivisibility

59 Moments to Success

59 Moments to Failure

59 Moments to Happiness

59 Moments to Sorrow

59 Moments to Joy

59 Moments to Oneness

59 Moments to Ecstasy

59 Moments to Infinity

59 Moments to Infinitesimalibility

59 Moments to Peace

59 Moments to Freedom

59 Moments to the Beyond the Pale

59 Moments to Perfection

59 Moments to Imperfection

59 Moments to Tranquility

59 Moments to Bliss

59 Moments to Meditation

59 Moments to Contemplation

59 Moments to Acuteness

59 Moments to Obtuseness

59 Moments to Heaven

59 Moments to Hell

59 Moments to Perdition

59 Moments to Brahman

59 Moments to Samadhi

59 Moments to the End of Time

59 Moments to the Beginning of Time

59 Moments to the Success in Failure

59 Moments to the Failure in Success

59 Moments to Future-Past

59 Moments to Serendipity

59 Moments to Dharma

59 Moments to Artha

59 Moments to Karma

59 Moments to Moksha

59 Moments to Go

59 Moments to Dreamtime
59 Moments to Pause
59 Moments to Stop

59 Moments to Separation

59 Moments to Unity

59 Moments to By Golly

59 Moments to the Great Pfft!

59 Moments to Manifest Destiny

59 Moments to Unmanifest Destiny

59 Moments to the End Before All Beginnings

59 Moments to the Beginning After all Ends

59 Moments to Ad Infinitum

59 Moments to Et Cetera

59 Moments … To Be Continued