By anonymous

He is I
The idea, the principle, the nature
Exists
It cuts, it's a sword
Of common sense
BOOM!
Heavy fact
Translucent image
Always alive
Never dies

Do you know

Do you know
Do you perceive
Yourself and the air
Between you and the trees
The sky opens
And who should appear
But the sun, shining at you

Wind of power
Field of electricity
El - El - El
B-O-
No
Nonono
Wind of prana
Where's my joy?
Yes, an idea
No, a concept
Now is Nature
For now and more

Work poem

Coming down
Work is hard
But fear you not
For the dawn will come
It's easy to think of beauty
But thinking of work
is nectar of bliss

Sta-tio-na-ry Bike

Sta-tio-na-ry-bike
I don't use one
I walk
From place to place
You
Are
A stationary gerbil of the land of the exercising priests
They shrug like it's a religion
Yes
They shrug like it's their purpose
Do they see?
Whoosh
Statue
Won't you -- Um
Uh won't you
Breath of
Ah: Won't you?
I just want --
I just want --
Uh, um
AH!
The incinerator

Quiet, for stagnation
And joy
BAR-BARIAN!

Who invented the question mark?

Who invented the question mark? Nobody knows. It's a mystery; a great question.


https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/origin-of-question-mark

Narcissists will say, "I'm a narcissist"

Narcissists will generally say, “I’m a narcissist” if asked. Other people will not do that so much. This is considered a good and quick narcissist test. If a person is asked, “That Carly Simon song ‘you’re so vain’….. is it about you?” a narcissist would say, “yeah.” That would be a good test. The Carly Simon Test. 

Don't Own Your Manic Episodes

This was an idea I first heard from Ajahn Brahm in a YouTube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXd09oGHD0I&t=2578s

Basically, people with bipolar feel an extreme level of regret for the things they've done. The one key to overcoming that regret, and basically feeling no regret anymore, is to realize that it wasn't you doing those things. Anyone around you can see it clearly already. When you're manic, you're not being yourself.

I often want to hold on to all of my experiences even if they're painful. I want to feel like, "I may have been manic, but at least I existed." Well no, I didn't exist. Nothing exists forever. My real personality comes and goes. It will eventually die when I'm 84 (That seems like long enough). So why own the parts of me where I was clearly not myself? I felt like myself at the time, but I wasn't.

Don't own it. That is the idea of no-self for Buddhism. It's not just don't own that, but also DO own the parts of yourself that are really you. It's not hypocritical to say, "This was me" and "that wasn't me." It's not hypocritical because it's just a fact. The time you showed up manic to work and confused and scared people was NOT you. You are the good person right now who would never dream of doing those sorts of things.

It's very important. One of my goals as a teenager was to live a life of no regret. I can't say I accomplished that, except that I wasn't me when I did regretful things. In that sense, I have lived a life free of regret. I don't regret anything I've ever done while sane. And while insane, I wasn't me.