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Black Friday

Metamorphosis Of Practice

So, I was meditating
and I thought
that I would let
my practice metamorphose,
so I thought
of an old musical offering
where I sang
Oh and Ah
so that is what
I meditated on,
so I thought
that I would let it
metamorphose,
and it came up with
Aloha,
so, later
I changed it
by metamorphosis to
I love you,
and then it went
to I love it,
and finally now
it is at,
Love Life,
so that is how
Zen practice
can change

if you let it.

Granola And Vanilla Soy Milk

So, a Zen man said
that granola
was too sweet,
and I thought
that he meant me,
but after a long time
with dabbling
in health food,
I have just eaten
granola and vanilla soy milk,
and it tasted
like Zen candy,
so delicious,
so the thing is
that we don't accept things
as they are
all the time,
so we have
to adapt
to the changing life,
which we don't accept
all the time,
but the joke is
that we have
been doing that

all along.

The Uncertainty Principle

The mind
tells me
that I don't know
anything,
and probably
I don't even know
that,
so I'm not certain
about any knowledge
and I'm not sure
if anyone is,
or has ever been,
and I even have doubts
about Buddha,
even if I am
a Buddhist,
because the eyes
are probably not
to be believed
necessarily,
and the mind
is probably not
to be believed
necessarily,
so I know
that I don't know,

but I don't know...

Me And My Telephone

I'm not the kind of guy
who you see in the car
talking on the cell phone,
or walking with a phone
on his ear,
or answering the ringing
in the post office,
my cell phone
is only for emergencies,
and I don't even know
the number,
so I think it's written down
some place,
and as for my land line,
it hardly ever rings,
except before
the election,
when guys like
Bill Clinton called up,
but he was on
a recording,
so the only call
that I usually get
is my daily phone call
from my friendly stalker,
who calls every day
and doesn't say

anything.

Questions

Why do we think
that Mary
wore a blue dress?
Why do we think
that flies
are some kind
of devils?
Why do we think
that darkness
is somehow
bad?
Why do we think
that light
is somehow
good?
When the preacher
or the songwriter
tells us
that it's going to rain
why do we think
that something bad
is going to happen?
Who am us?
If we are
what we think,

what do you think?

What I Learned From Television

When I was growing up,
I watched a lot
of television,
and I learned
how to spell "Kellogg's"
and that cigarette smoke
smelled like springtime
and I learned
that life
was like "Leave It To Beaver"
or maybe
"The Dick Van Dyke Show",
so later
the television
turned on me
and became some kind
of a monster,
like psychic TV
which was really
disturbing,
and then cable
gave us hundreds of channels
of next to nothing,
so, a little while ago,
I unplugged the cable,

and the television is off now,
and so,
I feel much better.