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Brian Taylor has been a Poet and Philosopher in Cornwall, England and the Far East.
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TAPEWORM
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
Posted in Ego Ego God of the Jungle
Tagged breath, desire, Divine Eye, Ego, feelings, God, heal, Life, Meister Eckhart, Nature, Tapeworm, thoughts, wounds
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TEMPUS MUTAT
People differ in awareness of Time.Brazilian Indians have no word for tomorrow. Time is the measure of thingsmoving through space.Where there is nothing moving,not even thoughts,there is no awareness of Time. When a dog sees you after a gap of … Continue reading
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged Brazilian indians, Dog, nothing, people, space, tempus mutat, thoughts, Time
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THE SEASON
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
Posted in Blondin
Tagged being, blazing heat, Brian Taylor, hot sun, powers, sandy feet, season, seeing, showers, sunrise, thoughts, wind
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WAVES
Time drifts away,as mist fades on the mountain.The world itself is hardly more real,the 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
Posted in Ego Ego God of the Jungle
Tagged Brian Taylor, children, fantasies, fountain, friend, inner garden, Life, mist, mountains, neighbour, powers, sandcastles, sun, thoughts, tide, Time, whole
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PEACE
Freedom from the Pastis the Present.Freedom from the Futureis the Present. The Presentis a crack that runs through the universe.Into it everything disappearslike snowflakesin a raging furnace. For most peoplethe Presentis a mental spacefilled by memories of the Past,thoughts of … Continue reading
Posted in Waves Talks & Poems
Tagged Brian Taylor, clear sky, crack, freedom, future, memories, mental space, past, peace, present, sun, thoughts, universe
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CALCULATIONS
Space you measure in feet and inchesand shoes by where your big toe pinches;seasons by cherry, rose and snow,when may comes and swallows go:empires by rise and fall of kings;weather by rain and drought and flood;dead trees by whether the … Continue reading
BUILDING A HOUSE
Of building houses there is no endwith bricks and feelings, thoughts and mind,using the universal gluethat 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Blondin
Tagged actors, angels, arrogant, Blondin, Brian Tayor, building, castles, conceits, creator, demons, entangled, heavenly mansions, house, lovers, mind, thoughts, universal glue
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GET UNSTUCK
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
Posted in Blondin
Tagged Blondin, breathing, Brian Taylor, dancing treasures, feeding, get unstuck, hunger, sangsara, thoughts, Time, tree of Life, whole
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BUDDHA’S SUNLIT CHAMBER
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
Posted in Bamboo Leaves
Tagged Buddha, Centre, consciousness, dhamma, feeling, form, Gautama, investigation, light, monks, peace, suffering, thoughts, Visakha Puja, vision
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FOOD CHAIN
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
Posted in Gnomonic Verses
Tagged Desires, fear, food, heartbeat, pretty girl, problems, propaganda, snake, thoughts, wisdom
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BLONDIN Poems 