Missing Self *** Yikes, my family has become concerned by my inability to find any solid fixed self, what to do? Best to keep quiet about my suspicion of their lack of inherent self. And who or what has been doing this searching and looking anyhow, like a gerbil spinning on a wheel? Those Buddhists, I tell you, they appear so peaceful (sometimes ) but are secretly a radical group of self deniers, how wonderfully subversive. Maybe I have been a Buddhist all along and just realized it. But then I look for the Buddhist and Bam! Same problem, there's nothing there. I must confess enjoying my nonexistent self today, uh oh, that could mean trouble. Now that I have realized my life is just a dream am wondering what comes next, or if there is a "next." Maybe I will keep looking a little more to be sure no self is to be found. The way things are going I might end up a Buddhist. Now not only can I not find myself, I can't find anyone else either. I close ...
My Father Is A Carpenter Mein Vater ist Tischler *** My father is a carpenter A working man is he Saves up all his shillings For future across to sea This land is hard for living When there's no bread Upon the table People are mourning They spin a weary fable I'll hop on the southbound ship My father and me Start up a new life In a land across the sea Like Moses out of Egypt Parting the Red Sea We'll head to the chosen land A place where we are free Because this land is hard for living When there's no bread upon the table The people are mourning They spin a weary fable I'll hop on the southbound ship My father and me Start up a new life In a land across the sea **" David Arndt 2022 *** Mein Vater ist Tischler *** Mein Vater ist Tischler Ein arbeitender Mann ist er Spart alle seine Schillinge Für die Zukunft rüber aufs Meer Dieses Land ist schwer zu leben...
Sacred Kingdom *** Rain, rain Falling down Abiding Love within is Found Night blooming flowers Missing link Sacred spirit empowers Take a drink Medicine of millennia Forgotten to time Native people singing Our spirit climbs Ancient medicine Missing link Within nature We must be In Sync We destroy our home We destroy each other Why can’t we see The earth is our mother Modern world Killing nature Why don't we Think Disaster comes Round the bend In a wink Consciousness Needed On the brink Without Awareness We sink Great love Winds Blow Blessings Our way Open Your heart Grow Humble Let us be In the sacred Kingdom We destroy Every day Nature is no “Dead language” This creation Lives We need ritual Healers Thinking/feeling Loving Spiritual Beings To Initiate The young Into a New way Of living Loving Interconnected Full Empty Appearing Love Earth warriors Get back To the Tao Be like Water Flow Strive not Yet see Action comes Spontaneously Trust “...
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