received
the "poems" which can be viewed on the next page when I was
in college and roughly 18 years old. I thought of them as poems which
I thought I was writing under the vague influence of Japanese haiku style
and reading various books on Zen Buddhism at the time. I now know that
I was using a form of active meditation and blanking my conscious mind
with these phrases appearing with no intention on my part regarding content. I was actually riding my motorcycle at the time for many of them and had to stop rapidly to write them down.
I do not know what order I received them in but soon came to realize that
they could be looked at as a cycle or meaningful sequence. Only in the
past ten years or so, after receiving a Gift of a Path, have I come to
think of them as providing another view of God ~ Ultimate Reality as what
I choose to refer to as Universal Mind or Absolute Mind which I sometimes
think of as Buddha Mind. I have included some commentary from in my 50's,
including some jokes for which I apologize to Mother
Goose, Douglas Adams (hitchhiker's guide
to the galaxy, et al.) and L.
Frank Baum (Wizard of Oz) and the screenwriter for the movie version of
the Wizard of Oz. The jokes do have points and the format of presentation
has a meaning which I believe can contribute to understanding of the whole
viewpoint.
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