Entertainment

So, we are on
a very long journey
on spaceship Earth
out into deep space,
and it can be
a boring trip,
so we need
entertainment
to keep us
alive and happy
while we are voyaging,
so Zen people
entertain themselves
by looking at what
is in front of them
and looking at their breath
and stuff like that,
so most people
watch TV and work
and play with computer gadgets,
so I do
my art thing
and my Zen thing
and my Chi Kung thing
for entertainment,
so everybody needs
a thing to do
so that they
can do their thing.

Connections

There are
invisible, wireless,
chi connections
between everybody,
and we aren't really
aware of it,
usually,
but I have become
more aware of it
by interacting
with the computer
Zen sangha,
and I became
aware of it
because we all seem
to be on similar
wavelengths,
like something important
to me
appears in the writings
of someone who knows nothing
about me,
and our feelings
tend to go up
and down
at similar times,
and even our computers
break down at the same time.

Eating Life

So, after I eat,
I always seem
to get depressed,
and probably
it's just
a kind of chemistry
that happens
to most everybody,
but I have
this notion
about eating
food
and that is
that it was once
living beings,
like animals and plants,
so, when I ate
blueberries, tomatoes,
and little fishes
this noon,
I thought of the plants
and the fish
who were something
like Nemo,
whose father couldn't save him,
and I got a little sad,
even though
I said I was sorry
before I ate.

Mystic Or Nut?

So, I am a Zen Buddhist
who also practices
yoga, chi kung and
some sort of shamanism,
but I am also
a mental patient
who takes medicine,
but I was thinking tonight,
"What is this medicine,
but some sort
of drug
that a shaman
would take?",
so I wondered
what my authentic self is,
a nut or a mystic,
and I live
in some dumb suburb
in Michigan, USA,
so how can I be
some sort of mystic,
but you know,
I can't really
figure it out,
but I know
that the two
are stuck together,
so I'm a mystic-nut.

The Wholesome Law

So, there is this story
about a guy named God
who created the entire universe
and had laws
which, if you broke them
you just might go
to a bad place,
so, I have a problem
with believing the Christian story,
but I do believe
in a kind of Universal Law,
which really is a type of common sense law,
or even like the kinds of laws
of science,
so, in Zen
there is this sort of law
to live life
in a wholesome way,
and it's just common sense
that if you live in a wholesome way,
you're liable to live longer,
healthier and maybe even happier,
so it's a good law,
of course, there are
extenuating circumstances,
like if you are not wholesome,
you might know
some sort of secret knowledge
about how to live longer,
healthier and happier,
and if you are wholesome,
you might get hit
by a bus.