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| Dr Jabir, instigator of Tantric Jihad and Urge |
That from a blind universe
Did arise
Billions of eyes
Like yours and mine --
Could it be any plainer than that?
That a thousand human tongues
And billions of non-human languages
Effortlessly emerged
From a universe devoid of meaning --
What could be more convincing?
That from a heartless, dog-eat-dog universe
Came so many men, women and animals
Who have loved and befriended me --
What evidence could be more persuasive?
I hold these truths to be self-evident:
This raw non-symbolic experience
of how nature feels
from the inside;
That the universe is filled
with billions of kinds
of invisible minds;
That all sentient beings
are created
equally near to the mystery;
That deep reality
is waiting for one of us
to ask the right question.
5 comments:
Bravo Nick I hope one day before you die you will admit that I have solved this problem in the way that fits your poem.
Considering that none of us every actually die (quantum construct only) I think your suggested inquiry is as good as it gets. Thanks for the insight and perspective, Nick.
Right on dear man.
Is the pertinent question a counterfactual, do you suppose? It's been said that, due to their language, Chinese people do not think counterfactually. His Holiness the Dalai Lama recently visited UC-Irvine and Anaheim to celebrate his 80th birthday and the LA Times ran a half-dozen or so articles about His Holiness and Tibet in general and from one of those articles comes this little gem:
"Despite its professed atheism, the Chinese government wants to control the process. The State Religious Affairs Bureau Order No. 5 prohibits the reincarnation of a monk without a permit."
I don’t know that His Holiness is solely responsible, it could be a combination of the Geo-political scene and the study of math and logic, but it seems as though the Chinese, as a people, are starting to think counterfactually; is this progress?
Grateful for sharing this post
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