Zen Mode
...not this, not this
ancient neti neti teaching
negating transience as unreal
all this, all this
for where is God not
exclaimed the sagacious monk
25-December-2022...
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Categories:
neti, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 19:2
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19.2
“Where is meditation, pleasure, prosperity
or discrimination? Where is duality?
Where even is Unity?
I abide in the glory of Self”
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Verse revisited on 23-March...
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Categories:
neti, spiritual,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Butterfly Is a Butterfly
...It was a bright beautiful morning!
A bunch of human beings,
Who claimed themselves, butterfly watchers,
Entered into a beautiful garden,
Filled with butterflies,
Of various colors, forms, shapes...
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Categories:
neti, beauty, butterfly, color, life,
Form: Free verse
Neti Neti
...Neti Neti, I am not the Body
Neti Neti, I am not the Mind
If I am not the Body and Mind
Who am I? This must be defined
Tat Twam Asi, I am the Divine Soul, I find
If the Truth you want to know
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Categories:
neti, philosophy, religious, spiritual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Neti Neti
...What is this concept of neti neti
Methinks, it is the ostrich syndrome
We are here, so why negate mind body
Here and now, in our heart, is Gods kingdom
Let us be distracted not by scriptures
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Categories:
neti, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
The Jigsaw Puzzle
...Neti neti, not this, not this! Negating illusions ephemeral, searching for the eternal, that that neither comes nor goes, the jigsaw puzzle becomes complete upon recognising that the entity searching...
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Categories:
neti, spiritual,
Form: Haibun
Neti, Neti
..."Don’t try to drag me into Oz
It will never work
I’ll kill the Munchkins and the witch
I swear I’ll go berserk"
--From "Malice In Wonderland" by Joyce Rugg
The scandal behind us,
We look to b...
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Categories:
neti, evil, , hinduism,
Form: Free verse
The Biggest Question
...The question of all questions- "I",
why I got born? and what if I die?
these eyes- doorway to which world unknown?
where was I? where am I?
and where will I go?
here or there?
there or here?
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Categories:
neti, god,
Form: I do not know?