twee verse 10 - understand

(Sunrise ~Georgia O'Keefe)

if not

understand,

then love.


if understand,

no then,

love.

twee verse 9 - game

(Humanity ~M.C. Escher)

the world is a mind

game

where winning is

losing

and losing is

winning

a chance to lose

all

winning & losing

seeing

through the mind

game

twee verse 8 - done

one is done

by that

unknown—


as a person,

that’s filtered by

daze of social conditioning—


as being,

that’s enlightened in

a wisdom of one self

twee verse 7 - this

[Ras Lila ~Satchitananda Das)

o enchanting

creativity

of consciousness—


unbelievable

point

of existence—


o this love-this

sun-this joy-this

one-this kiss-this


bliss—

this

that!

twee verse 6 - pretending

The Last Supper after da Vinci ~ Magnus (www.art-of-magnus.com)

dying is easy,

illusion is hard—


biography is story

pretending to be facts


about a dream


pretending to be real—

i’m transubstantiating


nothing

twee verse 5 - is

Chalkboard Universe ~Rob Gonsalves

either

Mind awakening is


the evolutionary

intention of

the universe


with almost all

powers of mind

arranged against it


or nothing really

is

twee verse 4 - peace

'A Bigger Message' ~David Hockney

world

is

war—


one can never

force a way

to peace—


war wasn't built in a day

but you are peace

now—


one peace at a time—

surrender

to one Self

twee verse 3 - oh

an old man

in a cotton tee shirt

looks through the glass—


the morning stirs

to empty branches

covered in a film of snow—


oh what an awakening!

twee verse 2 - awareness

awareness is

the music.

body-mind is

the amplifier.


turn it to

eleven.

pass all

distortion.


awareness is

aware of

awareness.

peace out.

twee verse 1 - thinking

it's not

the quality,

inclination,

or impairment of


a person's thinking

that results

in suffering;

it's the thinking


one is a person,

period

something

from the introduction:

Since 2009, I’ve been tweeting lines and collecting them into short pieces. Early on in the process, poems were being written in this manner. Later, the lines became more autonomous, and at some point I began to call the groupings sutras. Not all the time, but a lot of the time. Earlier this month, I collected 108 of them, all written in 2012, in book form and called it ‘one thing, nothing, everything.’

I then decided to select the “best” writings from the previous four collections and present them in this volume called ‘something.’ I’ve also included some new unpublished writings from the past few months and so have subtitled this book, ‘a little new and largely selected.’ They are collected from newest to oldest, and so the further into the book one proceeds, the more immature they may appear. That is part of this process in understanding.

Next will be a collection of peculiar stories gathered from a few books which will be called ‘anything.’

And these three books will form a series called ‘The Essential Son Rivers,’ none of which are truly essential. But we had some happiness. Some were originally written under the names of Aumshantidatta and Aum Dada, but I’ve come to see them all as the writings of Son Rivers (my legal name is Greg Perry and a few earlier collections have been published as such). These three represent a certain time in this phenomenon which appears to have come to a close. For now.

standing sutra sonnet

wanderer above the sea of fog - friedrich

the world is lost in translation—

it’s from where one actually stands

and not from where one speaks—

it's not an issue of looking inward

as much as it is the fact of standing there—

it's not as much dropping as turning—

don't act your age but be your Self—

not shining a light in but shining your light out—

not of the world but the world in you—

not stand by me but stand as Self.

why desire what you already are?

why look inward when you're already there?

why be somebody if you're already being?

feel that unnameable in all one is.