A Squirrel with a peanut

Poem:

The standard human thinking faculty is like a squirrel with a peanut. It is not clear why people would be so attached to it. That fact that it is their own mind they must think it is so sublime. Everyone is taught to be an individual and to be impressed with their own peanut. They are all busy collecting more as well. It feels good to rise above this kind of mind which you get tired of and all it’s limitations. In meditation you can have that which is greater than a peanut. Why just have one thought? When you could connect to the universal flow instead. The ordinary brain is too slow. Instead of using reason to your advantage, you could just go into nirvana. Besides that peanut size brain will run better after being in nirvana. So even so it is better to meditate instead. Most top scientists don’t know what happens to them when they are dead. They have not even addressed that which is most basic. It is possible to goose up your brain like Emily. Henry Shipley wrote of Emily: “I think she must have some spell, by which she quickens the imagination, and causes the high blood run frolic through the veins” DS poem November 17, 2018 Page 419 Early Frindships II The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall