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Brian Taylor is a Poet and Philosopher who lives in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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REQUIEM: ARMISTICE DAY
This year the dead are blind and do not seem to hear our prayers. Nor do they seem to mind that we now own what they once thought was theirs. Here they shed no tear at all the pain they … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Armistice Day, blind, dead, pain, prayers, requiem, thought
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POSSESSION
There is the fire that consumes and the fire that illumines. There is Desire and there is Love. Those motivated by Desire see things they wish to possess, things they do not wish to possess, and other things – of … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged compassion, desire, Fellow Travellers, fire, fool, love, moon, pain, possession, puppet, sympathetic joy, transmutation
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FOUNDATION
The great Foundation on which all things rest is soon lost sight of, soon forgot, fails to hold man’s interest as entanglements lead to great confusion (due to the power of the great Illusion); until he cannot see what is … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged Be, brain, Foundation, grief, heartache, illusion, joy, let go, myriad images, pain, real, rest, sermons, silence, silent, space, stillness, void
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THE NOTEBOOK AND THE PEN
Register the birth. Now register the death. All unfinished business ends with the breath. Ends. But then again begins as we all come back for more. Even though we long forgot what it is we come back for. Only while … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged birth, brain, breath, death, pain, stop, unfinished business
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STOP!
If stopping were easy, a thought beam properly directed would thread silently through atom after atom and bring the entire universe to a standstill. An empty mirror reflected in itself. Not easy. Not difficult. A judicious response to the Problem … Continue reading
POSSESSION
There is the fire that consumes and the fire that illumines. There is Desire and there is Love. Those motivated by Desire see things they wish to possess, things they do not wish to possess, and other things – of … Continue reading
STOPPING THE MIND
If stopping were easy, a thought beam properly directed would thread silently through atom after atom and bring the entire universe to a standstill. An empty mirror reflected in itself. If stopping were difficult, the spider mind would jumble on, … Continue reading
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Tagged empty, letting go, mind, mirror, pain, reflection, spider, thought, universe, web
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