A New Religion

A New Religion


My friend Mark, (pouvre homme ~ he thinks I’m his muse) says:
“I am but a poor, half-enlightened, riddled-with-human-appetites,
wanking Catholic schoolboy.” when referring to my poetic response
to a poet with whom I have not been able to “blend spirits”, further he asks:
“Does the above mean, This is someone whom, no matter what I do, I cannot agree with
nor can I get him/her to see the light of day. Moreover, he/she probably couldn't grab
his/her ass with both hands if he/she had a road map? Or words to that effect?”

You’re a funny man my friend and you know how I love the irony of any map
in any hands…

Well, dearest Mark, you might be unaware that it is I, your perfect student…
and nonduality may seem to be just another politically-correct language,
as neither one of us have a problem when stepping in some shit, calling it
what it is, since we never mistake shit… after all these years…

As you say, I pull no punches calling Sarah Palin’s shit at the behest of nonduality;
of course “she’s one of God’s creatures and everything is happening
right now and at no other time, just as it’s supposed to…and she and Senator
McCain are being and doing precisely *what God intended them to do*”.

And yes, every vagabond is invited to Silent Lotus’ ebony and cherry table…
it’s just that Governor Palin would have (most likely) banned every poet at Ivan’s Teahouse
at her command….only some words are *chosen* to get through her filters…

But I digress.
Here I copy a little story I wrote for posterity with a bit of charity for the sake of clarity:

One day, you just happen to be by a lake and you just happen to see a man drowning.
Now you are not that great a swimmer and for a split second (that's all the time you have
to make the decision) you consider saving him.

Do you? Was it really an accident that you were there? Was he *supposed* to drown and
you were just a *witness*? Do you try to save him and might you drown trying to?

Did you wake up from a bad dream?

See it's complicated, the only thing we are assured of is this moment where we choose our
actions. We never have a choice about who we are and why we are. That is God's territory.
The unknown unborn Buddha mind....that is never lost or found in (non)duality.

And I’m ready to take the next step after (non)duality and in that endeavor I am creating
a new religion…
it will start with the question: what is the sound
of One splashing in the Pond?

I’ll call my new religion:

Plop.