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Godman
Poem: In the early morning you can create a beautiful form and structure: yourself in silent contemplation. Your body can become your...
davidsmith208
Dec 28, 20181 min read
Bach Cantata
Poem: If you get up very early in the morning - you can go into early mourning - over your own pending death. You can forget about your...
davidsmith208
Dec 26, 20181 min read
My Christmas Present
Poem: My Christmas present to myself is to sit cross-legged and look into outer space. And listen to the hum of the music of the spheres...
davidsmith208
Dec 25, 20182 min read
Christmas Past
Poem: Christmas Past Resent from 2003 Twas the Night before Christmas and Happy New Year Dated: 2003 T’was the night before Christmas...
davidsmith208
Dec 25, 20182 min read
The Absolute State of the Divine
Poem: The absolute state of the divine is an end in itself. It is not there to improve your mind or skin tone. It does not fulfill your...
davidsmith208
Dec 24, 20182 min read
I would like to write more poetry
Poem: You can begin with the annihilation of fat. You can start by decluttering your brain. Can transcendentalism survive amongst the...
davidsmith208
Dec 20, 20181 min read
The half wise fish
Poem: Not Meditating is like arrogance. It is like saying my brain is functioning adequately without it. In reality it needs cooling...
davidsmith208
Dec 19, 20181 min read
New Revised Love’s Last Madness
My best Christmas Present this year as well as all Christmases past and future was Barry Lerner’s revised Love’s Last Madness Lacta alea...
davidsmith208
Dec 18, 20181 min read
Oh God, thy Will be done
Poem: Oh God, thy will be done, As long as it is for my soul To go to Sach Khand! Oh God, thy will be done, as long as it is for me to...
davidsmith208
Dec 18, 20181 min read
When your real history begins
Poem: Your real history begins when you decide to get up at three. When I wasn’t working and getting another job started to look...
davidsmith208
Dec 17, 20183 min read
It is very presumptuous
Poem: It is very presumptuous to assume you have a lot of time left. It is much more sumptuous if you don’t and penetrate more deeply...
davidsmith208
Dec 13, 20182 min read
Repeat it all the time
Poem: You do not have to be sublime all the time. No yes you do! To repeat it is the Sublime. It is like you replicate being a monk but...
davidsmith208
Dec 13, 20181 min read
The ready to go place
Poem: I believe in the direct perception of the ready to go place just inside your head. The place without a yesterday or a tomorrow. You...
davidsmith208
Dec 7, 20181 min read
Praxis
Poem: Praxis Action is the main thing. Thinking is distraction and low octane. But a companion to action. My three main wheels are...
davidsmith208
Dec 6, 20182 min read
Bewilderment
Poem: I can’t accept the concept of bewilderment. If God is going to be inattentive that is his prerogative. That doesn’t mean I will be....
davidsmith208
Dec 5, 20182 min read
The Body Electric
Poem: The natural state of the body is electric. If the body is healthy everything is flowing, the chinese talk about meridiens and...
davidsmith208
Dec 3, 20182 min read
Like my very first poem
Poem Thinking about what you are going to do is a waste of time. It is better just to start not doing anything but sitting in...
davidsmith208
Nov 30, 20183 min read
Before every meal
Poem: There is a saying that you should brush your teeth after every meal. I say you should meditate before every meal if you want to...
davidsmith208
Nov 28, 20181 min read
The things I like are very primitive
Poem: The things I like are very primitive. I like to take long walks with the dogs. I like to sit by the fire. I like to practice...
davidsmith208
Nov 27, 20182 min read
Twas a Full-moon before Christmas
Poem: Twas the full-moon before Christmas and nothing was determined. All the children were on their phones and not in their beds. There...
davidsmith208
Nov 26, 20182 min read
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