Why not all of them?
They are only here,
and they certainly
don't go with me
and most likely
many of those things
I believe are
based on someone
else's opinions and thoughts
and partly
that's the way it should be
but it limits us
at the same time.

We should examine all
we believe, and discard
regualrly that which
does not serve to
love.

Many beliefs are simply
for comfort
against the fear that I will die
and that I don't know when
and since I do little
to actually prepare myself
for, not against,
that moment,  not day,
I comfort myself
with beliefs that amount to
little more than lies
I tell myself.

Is it not better to face that fear naked
as I came and shall go
than to have to be stripped
and find all that I constructed
to protect myself
was wasted time and effort?

The only thing that matters
is the reality that doesn't die,
which can be called mind,
or consciousness, maybe
even spirit. That already exists
and doesn't need belief.
It needs attention to now,
to be known fully,
and to be uncovered freom the
constructs of my ego.

Want want want!
Social security, a nice car,
which of course comes
with a hunk
or beautiful babe.
Gizmos galore, and
who cares about the ceidt
it racks up, or
the mountain of interest
to be paid.
Food junkie, news junkie,
adrenaline junkie and all the
sport stuff, addictives, kayaks,
canoes, computers, consume
consume, consume.
Not living simply so that
others simply can't live.
Passions like this root me
to the things of this world.

But I hate that man! He was
a lousy husband/Senator/lawyer
President/talk show host
or even a woman who wrote books that were so full
of beans that it's laughable.
Yes, a war cost us billions and thousandsof lives
and health care sucks, and education is brpken and new Orleans
and the corruption and immorality
and tax cuts and pardons -
and if you let the anger eat you,
then you as well are one of the victims,
One of the casualties,
a self imposed loser of that battle.
Anger and hatred are self imposed,
a look in the mirror.
Liberate yourself.

Because; because;
all of those things have effect,
but no ultimate meaning.
No one escapes their karma.
No one lives forever.
I will reap what I sow.
Action always brings results
and action left undone
is never met.
The future is determined
by my choice now.
The past is memory
in my mind, mere shadows.
Hope and worry
do me no good.
Ignorance of reality
is the root of anger and passion
as well.
Know myself, be still.
Heal my self, be still.
Then arise,
in gentle love,
and play.