flash, flesh, compassion
ben goertzel
I sit,
alone in my garden of nonsense,
impending doom awakening
I sit,
alone in my garden of nonsense,
dreaming delirious dreams
"Delirium" – I use that word too much, but what does it really mean?
I sit,
alone in my garden of nonsense,
dreaming delirious dreams
And then a flash of white insight
dispelled the confusion
that had shot through my brain
made my world sour illusion
I understood, finally:
There's nothing that's real
There's nothing that's final
Nothing that we feel
Nothing that we think
And nothing that we do
Is more solid than dreams
Nothing is truly true
We're all expAnsions of nothing
Struggling to return
To get unity, harmony,
we endlessly yearn
And it's love and compassion
that bring us back home
Extend the soul to another
and truth becomes known
The mind's contradictions
will instantly melt
in the face of compassion
Love, honestly felt
Truth? What is truth?
It's all the same, it's different, it's different, it's actually the same after all
I understand nothing, I understand everything, I understand
everything, I understanding nothing
I sit alone and together, and together and alone, in my garden of my
nonsense, writing nonsense about my garden
And beautiful illusions seek me out, strange beauty of the big-
brained beast that I embody, but no more or less than any other
freaked out soul
The universe dements itself each instant, and that is the only true
tale.
Can love really cure the dementia, or can it merely palliate it a bit?
This is the ten-to-the-ninety-fifth particle question.
The answer is unknowable, of course. It resides in the flesh of her
thighs.