Best Tao Poems


The Capybara Way

Meet the friendly capybara
Rodent large without a care, a
Chill companion, friend to all, for
Clearing any gloomy pall

Sitting still or hanging out, with
Capybara social clout, a
Being present in the now, who
Effortlessly lives the Tao

Showing up and just to be, in
Any opportunity, a
Doing by no action seen, this
Caviidae is deftly keen

Always ready to relate, to
One who’s discombobulate, a
Silent empathy it shares, our
Wordless friend who capybares

Premium Member Ecological Economics of Tao

In macroeconomic wealth
we express mutual namaste
for robust ecotherapeutic global climate resilience
co-arising
microeconomic bio-ego-logical WinWin cooperative
health-care resonance

Restoring macro-global cooperative wealth
without retributive individual micro-egological loss
of resiliently wealthy Yang/Yin 
bilaterally co-intelligent
eco/neuro-logical resonant health.

Ako Bilang Tao

Matagal na panahong minimithi ni ina,
Tinataglay na kabutihan sa aking mata
Kailan sa akin ang iba'y makikisama
Kung wlang kabutihan akong pinapakita
 
Kahit ang sarili ko'y 'di ko rin nakikilala
Sino npa ba ang iba, at ano rin ba sila?
Dito sa puso ko sila'y ibang-iba
Hindi ko akalain kaibigan ko pala!
 
Hindi ko nakitang sila'y aking karamay
Sa lahat ng oras sila'y aking kaagapay
At sa bawat araw na sila'y masisilayan
Kapanatagan nga ba aking madarama?
 
Sino nga ba ako at bakit naging ganito?
Lahat kinalimutan pati Panginoon ko!
Wala kahit tawag na sa kanya'y ipinukol
at sa aking sarili lahat iniuukol!
 
Dumating ng araw ng 'di ko inaasahan
Na aking malalaman taglay na kabutihan
Sa lugar na iyon iba't ibang natutunan
Nalaman ko rin marami akong kaibigan!
 
Ako bilang tao'y may kakayahan din pala
Gawin ang nararapat kahit nagkamali na
O, kay buti talaga na sa ati'y naglalang
At sa mundong nilikha tayo'y kanyang nilalang
 
At sa bawat araw na patuloy lumilipas
Maraming kaalaman sa aki'y nakatatak
At 'di na maiwawaksi ng kahit sino pa man!
At lahat ng ito ay sadya ng nakalaan!


Premium Member Divine Co-Op

Yang: What is the difference between a theist and an atheist?

Yin: A bicamerally balancing ego/eco-teleologist.

Yang: Well, so what's that; a teleologist?

Yin: You, if you believe the Earth is your co-gravitational 
(0)-double-binding mind-spirit/body-nature center
epi-center 
of wealthy egonomic
and healthy ecopolitical values, 
each with equi-valent 
ego/ecological 
transgenerational health-care 
deep wealth meaning merit.

Yang: So, who wouldn't believe that?

Yin: Probably no one.

Yang: So, why, exactly, is this an issue I need to look at right now?

Yin: Because, if you are an ecological panentheist, 
then you are also a (0)-interest 
co-invested bodhisattva peace warrior 
poli-economist, 
presumably.

Yang: Wow, I really did not see that climax coming at all!

Yintegrity: Yes, well, I get that all mind/body bipartisan time.

YangBright: Hmmm.... I can see purpose Now i
n sort of a 4D WinWin Cooperative Here
Ego/EcoOccupyers 
Rejoining RNA Tribal Purpose 
unfolding dialectical 
exponential 
deep fractal meaning 
kinda' organic sacred WuWays.

YinPower: Don't rush, reframe our collateral flow issues,
in alpha(0)mega double-binding poli-economic 
nondual crown/rooted
mind-dawn/body-dark
respirating EarthNature's 
dipolar teleological appositions.

YangLight: You flow on too darkly rooted much
for optimally repurposed fire-power.

YinPower: Invest less in competing economic partial-trusts 
and politically disharmonic insufficiency 
of loving sacred beauty.

Instead, 
invest in repurposing
every co-engaging 
meaning-full 
experiential expedition
only where your economic health flows out
our cooperative climatic inflow
of politically multicultural wealth.

YangMind: Ah, yes, 
I see 
our MidWay Zen
mutual reflection again,
where my Tao wealth
caressingly embraces your cooperative health 
of coarising egomind/ecobody-engagement

Right purposeful proportion, 
eco-dominant meaningful balance,
light's radiant fractal frequencies 
of regenerative logos-dawn/mythos-dusk

Yang/yin
pregnant/absent
positive/double-binding negative,
appositional boundaries of co-balancing light
and prime co-relational powers.

YinPower: And you think I flow out too much feeling!

The Tao Broadened Horizons Contest

“Cannot be named
Cannot be found,”
For in this effort--this person
Into non-Tao becomes wound.
The Tao was before time’s beginning.
The Tao is not found in complex systems,
But is revealed by listening to the heart,
To the oneness of all living things,
The honoring of all beings.
There is the start!
For the Tao has been
Endowed by nature to all. 
Therefore, no need for grasping.
The Tao is to be found
In the silence between breaths,
By seals in the waves
Jumping in play,
By a caring hand on a 
Fevered brow, there is the Way.
Father Merton wonders
Did St Francis join with the Tao,
And the Buddha  sitting under the Bodhi tree
Who showed
A way to end suffering
Brought on by attachment to anger, 
Delusion and greed.
Thus the way of Tao, simplicity,
Release attachment to  things.
The Tao has been called “Mother
Of all  Truth and Life.”
This humble person must stop 
For all this explaining is non-Tao
So she will stop 
She will stop right NOW!


Referenced in many ways: “The Way of Chuang Tzu” by Thomas Merton.

Premium Member BiCulturing Passion Seeds

We are born remembering
DNA's sacred syntax,
cryptic receipts with multigenerational redemption value,
to redeem integrity through this incarnation's
fully functional root and crown potential 

For ecological
politically co-intelligent
co-operative economic practice
with polyculturally unconditional intent

Mutual subsidiarity of peace 
compassioning just rightness
declared only through solidarity 
in co-prehensive 
leftbrain consciousness.

Who are these would be CoRedemptive Mentors
stalking my multi-regenerational mirror?
Tempted by good and evil
I reconnect MotherEarth's suffering 
to monotheistic FatherSun's not listening,
steadfastly ambivalent feelings
ambidextrously languaged

Riding Time's enculturing edge
flying forward for hope of better
stronger
surer lasting light,
fleeting backward darkening doubtful powers
to change what I cannot compassionately tolerate
to fulfill EarthJustice commitments together
as we might
were Anthros not a lone Redeemer 
anti-hero monoculture

Prophets without sufficient Time 
for holy spirit's embryonic forms 
flowing full-natured unction.

This present makes a safer home
than future's pregnant womb
or past's enslaving RoyalAnthro tomb
severing analogical revolutions 
apart
rather than preserving integrity's resolutions 
together.

Double-bound
stigmatic 
messiah wounds

Breathing in Earth's first breath
while dying out Ego's already last,
stifling my victorious solo shout
"not yet...not yet" out

My mythic time 
portends mystery's co-redeeming climax
without embracing Beloved EarthTribe's
sacred sensory resonance.

Redeemer musing Heart
mediating fragile warring Mind
against unwisely breaking Body,
our Trinitarian Teleology 

As messianic restitution
perpetually rides 
Earth's suffering surf
of almost pregnant paradise.


Tao Te Ski

The state of flow, eternal Tao
Dance in the ephemeral now
A Bound mind will not allow
A Joyous downward plow
Soft snow, honored thou
Its own meaning endow
Feet atop sacred bough 
Snow cut by skis’ prow
Let me show you how

4/5/16

Premium Member Tao of Healthy Wealth

On what metaphysical, natural yet spiritual, principle
might agree
an economic ecologist,
an evangelist,
and a political power analyst?

Earth's prehistoric Creation unfolded
more regeneratively compassioned
than degeneratively dispassioned,
or anthropocentric history tellers
and sacred scripture retellers
and, eventually, writers,
could not have become 
recreatively intelligent 
regenetically empowered 
neurosystemic co-investors

Enlightening SunFather
created LeftHemisphere's
AnthroCentric Logos
derived from spiritually sung 
and naturally danced
empowering EarthMother's
indigenously wise RightHemisphere Mythos

Remixing
reconnecting
re-ligioning pleasure mysteries
regenerating passion history histories.

And if we add the further premise
that on bi-hemispheric Earth,
as in neurosystemic bicameral logic 
and creolizing inter-religious language 
and cobinary polymathic listening,
positive 1-SunGod History
is equivalent to 
double negative 0-EarthMother Mystery,
then Earth's regenerative, resonant, resolving,
re-ligiously liberating
spiritually enlightened mind economic passions
balance conserving 
naturally empowered not not political body pleasures.

Or maybe this has nothing to do with indigenous endorphin wisdom;
its just the more agnostic Nyquil.

Premium Member An Attractive Thought Experiment

In this thought experiment
Adults, at least,
have developed three types of attraction
and attractiveness,
chemistry,
positive and negative
and in-between synergy:

Heart attraction,
romantically associated
with touch and feeling,

Mind attraction,
more cognitively associated
with sight and sound
and, perhaps, LeftBrain dissonance
and more competitive
predative instincts
of win v lose zero-sum
calculation

And root sexual attraction,
primordially associated with taste
and smell,
swallowing
and letting go
biochemistry,
neurologically informed
and exforming passions,
rhythms,
communion and disunion patterns,
co-passion v dis-passion communication structures,
win+win bilaterally resilient
and lose v lose resistant
pleasure v displeasure
ease v disease

These three conjoined
into dipolar associative co-relationships
anthropological and ecological,
spiritual and natural
sacred and organic
metaphysical and physical
passion and pleasure

Sage and Muse
crown and root bicameral intelligence
combined within each PeaceWarrior
heart
touching Other sentience
and feeling Self consciousness.

Premium Member Mindfullness Class

OK, mindful class,
past time to reopen our nurturing nests,
our nutritional mouths
and good-natured ears
and fertile reverse reserves
of not Lose/Lose
EarthMother Health-Wealth Care.

First,
we define our variables,
bilaterally co-arising
recreating
bipartisan dipolarities

Depolarizing
bipolar competing aggravations
replacing Old School co-gravitations
cooperative structured spatial out-forms (x-Yang)
and compassionate temporal in-flow(y-Yintegral

Organic green growing secular BodyLeft (x)
and sacred MindRight felt (y)
x/y brilliantly resilient body/mind co-investments

Where x presents Integrity
of enlightened LeftBrain solid form,
And y represents CoInvestments
of empowering RightBrain synergetic flow.

Please respond as I call:
X also Here presents...

Universal
space without sufficient time

And Y again Now remembers...

Unitarian
wealth of time without severing 
Universal health care space

Very good.
And, thereby,
resurfaces reverse appositions
between Solidarity (x)
and Synergy (y)

Of non-zero 
Open Whole Living BioSystems
for x/y Gaian NeuroSynthesis
Green Tao Energy

CoPassionately coalescing
inside mindful listening classrooms
while creolizing cultures and religions
outside indigenously integral
win/win peak experience
polyculturally robust
HealthCare Communication
Wealthy EcoPolitical Systems

As Golden Rule understood
and appreciated
by AnthroPrivileged students
of LeftBrain empowering
nonviolent ecofeminist 
secular (x) communicating forms
sacred (y) peak communion flows

In economic
and political conclusions,
co-invested and co-operative

Universal spatial solidarity (x)
Yang bilaterally double-binds Yintention
Unitarian temporal synergy
exponentially encircling (y)

Emergent
Mono(x)/Poli(y)-Theistic
Gaian felt panentheistic
inside RightBrain nonverbal
nonviolent win/win communication

Unconditional warm-flow
womb-formed pre-traumatic
universal/unitarian bifurcated mindfulness

Original prime matriarchal attachment
(x/y) ego/eco-systemic harmonic 
EarthTribal resilient ch'i-balance
harmonic wisdom circles
for sharing resonant wealth
of resilient health.

The Tao of Hunger

Chi eats the body.
Even starving it still has food.
Then graves feed the earth.
© J. Rivers  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Struggling For Democratic HealthCare

If I became a pronoia non-schizophrenic
I might begin channeling Jesus of Nazareth
but, instead, dealing with my real world dysfunctional family,
with messianically depressing delusions
refracting illusions of gift-it-forward co-redemptive grandeur
leading cooperative economic explorations 
into remembering pronoia hopes
resilient win/win regenerativity
despite win/lose verbally abusive
and actively distrusting history

Struggling to pacify
remaining cognitive v affective dissonance
about bodhisattva empowering 
and economically enlightening assignations,
therapeutic communication 
respectful of our integrally democratic constitutions.

Organic frames of sympathetic reference
and nonviolently communing dialects 
and double-binding co-empathic
depolarizing dipolar Yang/Yin permeable
AnthroMind/EarthBody boundaries

Sacred anthropocentric messiah 
of universally lonely 
monotheistic protagonist ideation
within organic EarthBody bodhisattvas
of unitarian belonging
polytheistic pronoia win/win experience

AnthroMessiah/EarthBodhisattva
co-empathic peak health/wealth resonant
extended family longing/belonging resilient
cobinary resonant AnthroFamily care-giving
longs to belong inside GaiaBody's forgiveness
for past SacredMe v OrganicWe antagonistic hubris.

Pausing too briefly for peaceful family rainbows 
of divine co-elational bliss
predicting further appositionally sustainable 
spiritually healthy longing 
and physically wealthy belonging
wu wei Tipping Points in-between Yang struggling bodhisattva with
and not messianically against 
Yintegrity's sacred/organic
extended family bicameral transformation.

Belonging within Earth's bodhisattva climate of wealth
longing to cooperatively embrace
AnthroMessiah's peaceful Gaia Hypothesis 
therapeutically supporting
our extended organic family's pronoia vocation

While dealing with my real world dysfunctional family,
with messianically depressing delusions
refracting illusions of gift-it-forward co-redemptive grandeur
leading cooperative economic explorations 
into remembering pronoia hopes
resilient win/win regenerativity
despite win/lose verbally abusive
and actively distrusting anthropocentric history.

Premium Member The Tao

The Tao creates all things
As light streams forth to fling


See the dual modes reveal
A harmony that fills


The push and pull of poles
First cause from a clear whole


Yin and Yang swirl and merge
In flights of sacred urge


The cosmic signs appear
To signal brief endear


Change is the way of light
That seeds the flow and flight


Here for a while in time
Let cheer play with stray rhymes


The Tao begins and starts
As Yin-Yang moves the heart


The journeys here on earth
Cause and create new mirth


When joy and grief embrace
Soul finds true peace in grace


No wants or needs to feed
Allow compassion seed




Leon Enriquez
24 April 2015
Singapore

Premium Member Yin With Yang, Advent Remix

If yin is Time's regenerate intention
then yang is Spatial Will,
emerging tri-dimensional plans and structures
of evolutionary form to grow
transform
polyculturally regenerate

Yintegrity's advent 
resonantly fluid void of sacred Place,
transparently and ubiquitously stretchin,

Incarnating metaphysical timespace,
excarnating EarthLife spacetime
breathing in as out,
ego/eco-conscious Alpha within 
as Omega without,
birthing midway Mass 
of bicamerally dipolar
co-arising Adventurous Peace.

Premium Member Religious Arts and Science

Art follows ecology 
of inductive diametrical synergy

As science leads logos
through deductive dialectical simplicity

As religious culture accompanies mythos
seducing ancient dialogues 
in amusing sage symmetry

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