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2017, 7*, austerity, being, Bodhisattvacharyavatara, conscience, conscientiousness, death, doing, effort, fall, gravity, illusion, inspiration, karma, Lucifer, mind, now, practice, self-cherishing, Shantideva, superhero, talking to myself, time, virtue
where it has taken birth
may it not decrease … there are
tiny filaments here and there
from time to time
connecting the flexing muscle
further corridors within the firing mind
it’s not a whole package
nicely taped up in cardboard
and delivered with a smile, a signature
and a how-might-I-do-better survey
it … won’t happen like that;
here’s where if anywhere
the austerity takes place
here’s where if anywhere I develop
gaunt lines of virtue
in my cheek, after the inspiration
has gone:
just keep on keeping on; if I try super-heroically –
ag-grandiosely – there is nothing
to let ‘not decrease’,
if it does not burn it is not fire;
I am either serious or not
and if not, I should;
go back
calm down and create new filaments
quietly and accordingly
anything ethical
should be conducted … only,
not become an eater of conscience
like Lucifer’s hapless fool
simply bargaining
with illusion is the loss of its finding … out,
the gravity of the flailing fall
exponential
to each and every action
where it will take a long time to gain ground; death
affords time to practise
now, all the time now, not
later, not I-did-have-it-but-
now-I’ve-lost-it … NOW
right-angled out of chapter IV of Shantideva’s Bodhisattvacharyavatara … or in
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
being & doing & talking to myself wormhole: six paramitas
death wormhole: ‘never look up’?
mind wormhole: moment
practice wormhole: just saying, is all VI: // accountable / for my own outbreath / …
superhero wormhole: passersby
time wormhole: the bench
