Tag Archives: thoughts

WAVES

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Universal Octopus

Time drifts away,as mist fades on the mountain.The world itself is hardly more realthe living waters springingfrom life’s fountain run dry,leaving discarded bonesbleaching in the sun. There is no moleculebut strives to be the whole(or if it can’t encompass that, … Continue reading →

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TAPEWORM

Posted on June 18, 2021 by Universal Octopus

God sees with the same eyeyou see with, says Meister Eckhart. Do you live your life,or does Life live through you? Do you breatheto stay alive,or does the Life-breathbreathe you? Life lives and blossomsthrough Natureand thus Nature can heal itself. … Continue reading →

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BUDDHA’S SUNLIT CHAMBER

Posted on May 26, 2021 by Universal Octopus

In Buddha’s sunlit laboratory(or Dhamma chamber),experiments by laboratory assistants(or monks)demonstratethat if you shine the lightof investigationon form, feeling, perception,thoughts and consciousnessand apply continuous mindfulnessat the very centreof the rising and fallingof these phenomena,all things are seento be without a permanent … Continue reading →

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THE SEASON

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Universal Octopus

The season slidesto wind and showersand sharp hot sun(for rare half-hours)and all the worldlays waste its powerspursuing what it cannot own. Then mists and fogs and hazy sunriseships’ dull horns and lazy gull cries. Now blazing heat(bone dry pails)sandy feetsingle … Continue reading →

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FOOD CHAIN

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Universal Octopus

Thoughts feed feelings.Feelings activate the body.It cannot tell the differencebetween a real snakeand an imagined snake. Fear stifles its breathingaccelerates its heartbeatand makes it sweat. The pretty girlin your imaginationor pornographic videoproduce the same reactionas the pretty girl in real-time … Continue reading →

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GUESTS

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Universal Octopus

Who are the deadI have not reached(or been unable to find)who wait with such patiencein quiet corners of my mind? Seek with the mindyou get thoughts.Seek with the heartyou get understanding.Speak with thoughtsyou reach a man’s mind.Speak with understandingyou reach … Continue reading →

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COLD FROST

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Universal Octopus

We fill the time twixt sleep and sleepto stop the thoughts dig down too deepfor they have messages to keepthat what you sow is what you reap. .

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BUILDING A HOUSE

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Universal Octopus

Of building houses there is no endwith bricks and feelings thoughts and mind, that clings and sticks and binds. Lovers spin webs for castles,conquerors ancestral halls,angels their heavenly mansions,demons their prison walls. Actors that tread the boardsand actors on the … Continue reading →

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GET UNSTUCK

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Universal Octopus

Leaves from the Tree of Life;brown and withered,dried with growing old,dislodged by the touch of Time;or green,with veins still swellingwith rising sap,torn free by an untimely wind. What are they,these dancing treasures? The more the tree creates,pushing and buddingout of … Continue reading →

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SHADOWS OF ETERNITY

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Universal Octopus

Products of the Pastare apparent all around us.All of them outlastand eternally surround us. The Past for its own sakeis always out of view,following in the wakeof something always new. Looking for the Past itself,records are all you find;fossil, video, … Continue reading →