Should We Give Love A Chance?

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Should We Give Love A Chance?

Worshiping Worldly God's 

Mammon 

Mara

Prometheus

How's That Working Out

Humanity?

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21st century 

Horror show

"Progress "

Arising 

Consequences 

Destruction

Modernity

Same old human story

Beginningless time

Will We ever see?

How are things 

Working out humanity?

Postmodern

Dead end path

Attempts in vain 

Making us gods

Space and time

Human folly

Nihilism

Our vain attempts

Human happiness

Alleviating suffering

Pretending we're gods

We Fail every time

How has our worldly 

Happiness worked out?

Our great problematic 

Worshiping

Materialism

Tribalism

Modernism

Postmodernism

Post humanism

Endless Isms

Destroying everything

Until no history

Time

How's it gonna feel 

When we Wake up 

To find we're hurling

Toward the inner/outer

Apocalypse?

Can you feel the vipers

Crawling through your mind?

Do you feel fear?

Do you think in life

We've endless time?

Trapped in reason 

Linguistic prisons

Worshiping science

Technology

Believing

We're Gods

Moving forward 

Progress

How's our cell phones worship

Services working out?

Are they bringing us happiness?

Are attempts

To end human suffering

Space travel

Cyber immortality

Idea of ending suffering

By worldly profane means

Causes endless suffering

How's it working out 

Finding lasting Worldly happiness?

Prometheus

Blinded by by fire

Believing fire everything

Oh foolish human folly

Gods of materialism

"Forgive them 

For they know not 

What they do "

What do we find?

Present moment

Our creations

Leading all beings

Suffering Dying

Is fire going to save us

When we head off

Into the great beyond?

Our attempt

Accessing

What's most meaningful

For ourselves

All sentient beings

Our grand theories 

YetAttempting to explain it all

Explaining nothing

Guiding us nowhere

More confusion

Speeding down dead end streets

Crashing into joke shops

Is any of this funny?

We're all slaves

Dying in Egypt

Under Pharaoh 

Our human gods

Life creation

Failing us

Every time

Across each

And every

Nation

How's our nationalistic pride 

Working out? 

More suffering

Less suffering?

If we're honest 

With ourselves

We're lost sheep

Blind moles

We need 

Earth mother

We need

Father Shepherd

We need 

Each other

How's it working out

Doing things the way

We disconnected

Human gods

Believe best?

Our endless 

Philosophical 

Intellectual

Babbling

Nonsense

Explaining

Nothing

Bringing

More

Confusion

Suffering

How's our worldly 

Ways working out?

Do our ethics

Arise from within

Benefit others?

Do we simply hurt 

Ourselves each other?

Do unto others

As you would wish them

Do unto you?

Is this a good idea?

Can we take refuge in reason

In human understanding? 

Please you tell me?

Perhaps only

Wittgenstein

Who leveled

Most philosophical 

Sandcastle

Nonsense

Was spot on

Never certainty

But Wittgenstein 

"true enough"

What do you think?

How's babbling about 

That which can't 

Be spoken of working out?

What do we see

Looking out

Looking within

Honestly

Seriously

Linear progress?

Nihilistic

Philosophy?

Decaying

Entropy?

How are the ways

Of the dark prince within/without 

Working out?

Where are we going?

Where are we heading?

Our effort in life

To help others

Who are we helping?

Are we helping ourselves?

Is there more love in our lives?

Within our hearts?

Less love?

No one but ourselves

Can answer these questions

Reflect upon

What will matter

At the end of our days

Breathing our last breath

What do you think

Deaths the elephant in the room

Is it worth reflecting on?

Our Worldly 

Profane views

Have they

Save us from

Deaths abyss

How's it working out baby?

Have you conquered 

Your Fear of death?

Can't grab onto 

Worldly

Attachment

Nothing's fixed baby

Life is motion

Don't believe

Propaganda Baby

Lies of future Utopias

Trapped and fixed

Language

Grammar

Views

Assumptions

Habitual

Death

Habits

What do you think?

Is death real?

Does it matter?

Have we recognized 

We're imperfectly perfect

Left to our own devices

Can't we see 

Our worldly 

Mundane limitations?

Can we recognize

Our ways

Bring only suffering?

No lasting happiness

What do you think

Is it worth giving a shot 

Trying to end suffering 

Through other means

We have yet to try?

We're Sad ships

Sinking

Drowning

Under

Deaths

Violent

Seas

Our Bad human

Psychedelic trip

We're spinning out

Seduced by 

Wordly Sirens

Crashing on the rocks

Of Nihilism 

How's Does it feel blindly racing

Full steam head

Towards the iceberg of

Infinite worldly suffering?

Listening

Stillness

Loving

Looking out

Realizing

Poetic

Not doing

Our new way

Love

Unfolding

Arising

Blossoming

Touching all beings

Happiness

Can you dig it baby?

Expect opposition

Change is terrifying

Expect attacks

Our new ways of being

In opposition

Our path is legitimized

If no one feels threatened

By love

Breaking down the fixed

What do you think?

Maybe it's time to question

What we're doing?

We all must find

Our own path

It manifests

Under countless names

In order to benefit

All sentient beings

It's the path

Which ends suffering

Benefits ourselves

All sentient beings

Within ultimate 

Spiritual freedom

Grounded within

Relative human 

Experience

Interconnected

Wake up to

The great loving

We're on the Titanic

Iceberg ahead

Do we want to sink

Our lifeboat

Sustaining life?

Do we want to wallow 

In our own excrement 

And waste Forever?

Aren't our worldly ways

Stinking up our homes 

Which are no refuges?

Aren't we running 

Wailing

Like chickens

With our hair on fire

Heads eventually

Cut off?

Screaming for help

What do you think?

Do you think we should try to find

Lasting refuge

To protect us

And others

From the coming

End Times

Storms of suffering?

Ultimately we fight things we fear

Fight Change

Cutting through habits

The unfamiliar

The fixed

Our fears

Bound and shackled

Propaganda

Everything of profane 

Human God world

As Dylan says

Adds up

To one big lie

What do you think

Has everything

You've been told about life 

And the great beyond true or false?

We've been

Beaten 

Whipped 

Abused

Killing

Hurting

Each other

Beginningless

Space Time 

How are our profane

Attempts

To live in harmony 

Interconnected with life 

Working out?

We grab onto the fixed

Oh how we suffer

Nothing is fixed

Yet we fall further

Grasping

Delusions

Illusions

How is taking refuge 

In the fixed working out?

Maybe it's time for new way

Maybe we must be courageous

Perhaps it's a good idea 

To love ourselves and others?

We failed to give love 

A good shot

Why not try

Throw the ball long

It's getting late

What do you think?

Is it time for a Hail Mary pass?

Everything else failed

What shall we do?

Should we try to love 

Ourselves and each other?

As Rilke

So gently

Made clear

Loving ourselves

Each other

Most difficult task

Hardest practice in life

Protecting each other solitude

Living our questions

Into their answers

Yet this is the only work

With undertaking in life

Nothing but unfixed love 

Unconditional equanimity 

Slowly titrating ourselves

Lovingly outward 

Recognizing our capacity

Limitations

We gradually

Increase our love

With those most near

Expanding it slowly

Until it encompasses all

Ripples in the water

Clouds dissolving in sky

Slowly patiently

Increasing our capacity

Beginning to see

Life within our eyes

Each other's eyes

Love Shining forth

Dispelling inner darkness

Illuminating outer of darkness

North Star of love 

Guiding our way

On the Path

Endinh

All suffering

Let us Be children

Wide Open hearts

Innocent Eyes

Never saying goodbye

Poetic Love

This is true power

Through unfixed poetic love

We enter the narrow gate

Crossing over 

Sufferings

Hurricanes

Tsunami's 

Seas

Crossing over

Through love

Undying love

Unconditional love

For all that ever was

All that ever will be

All within

All without

Every last sentient being

Even in failing at love

What a glorious failure

We all fail

It is in the failing

We arise free

A meaningful life

Worth living

What better

Then to give everything

All to love

Instead of do nothing

Failing everything

What do you think

Are we tired of failing?

Taking first steps

Not looking back

We hold the keys

We enter the kingdom

Oh and how we love

Oh and finally

Within love

We abide

Trusting 

Through love

Lighthouse

Beacon

Shining

Cutting through

Storms of darkness

Our Rocky shores

Of suffering

Guiding us

Safely

Refuge 

Great white light

We will all

Finally

Recognize

We were always

Free Free Free

Paradox yes?

Winds of time

Collapsing

Celestial

Divine breezes

Freedom

One taste

Loving

Abiding

Infinity

Eternity

What do you think? 

Do any of my words make sense? 

Do they contain any unfixed spacious truths?

Or are they utter nonsense?

Written by love

It's blowing in the wind

Oh feel the loving breezes

Cressing your minds hearts

Ancient past, present, future

All time No time

No one else can tell you

What is your path forward

If any unwritten words above

Contain a drop of nectar

Which is beneficial 

Only you can know

Onward

Into the dark night

We go

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David Arndt November 1st, 2022

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Artwork 'Prometheus Carrying Fire', 1637, Flemish School.Jan Cossiers -1600-1671- by Jan Cossiers -1600-1671-