If we all looked at each other, and saw our selves and those around us, as the angels that we are, we would smile more.

Did Lao Tzu ever have a hangover?

Man, when he enters life,
is soft and weak.
When he dies
he is hard and strong.
Plants, when they enter life,
are soft and tender.
When they die
they are dry and stiff.
Therefore: the hard and the strong
are companions of death;
the soft and weak
are companions of life.
Therefore: when weapons are strong they are not victorious.
When trees are strong they are cut down.
The strong, the great, is below.
The soft, the weak, is above.

Lao Tzu
Dao De Ching
76

Like Moses, Jesus, Abraham, Mohammed, Buddha. Yea, those fellas and their ilk

Every religion is flawed, because every prophet was flawed, because every prophet was a man, and come on people, nobody's perfect. I know i've said it before, and I just have to say it again. Will these pig fuckers just stop talking all the time about things they do not know! Come on people. We don't really have a clue what's going on here. Let's be honest for a second. We're up to our necks in a complicated modernity. We have nuclear weapons, global warming, pollution, we are wiping other species off the earth every day, we are running out of supplies. So we are human beings. High and low, beyond and beneath.

Can we stop killing each other? It's a tuff one. We are hard wired for violence. This new world is not for violence though. This murder and rape and guilt is a flaw in the wiring, this is the darkness of the past, of the decay which has now made us ripe. Let's start fresh, this is not the light of the present, this violence and rape and cruelty which we have allowed ourselves to be surrounded by. Enough. We are damn right training ourselves wrong.

Stop telling each other what the truth is. You don't have a clue. You Jehovah's Witness, shut up. You Jew, zip it, Abraham was a man. He said there is one god. Great. Give the man a prize. There are also a million Gods. Hey Witness of Allah, psst. You are still following the Jews. Moses, Jesus, Mohammad, they were still carrying the message of Abraham. Let it go. Try Buddha. Same One. Try Lao Tzu. Same One. Try LSD. Same One. Try Rasta. Same One. I know nothing. It's empty. It's whole. Come in Honolulu, the ship has left the harbor and is floating unmanned at sea.

a good feeling

is to give everything and expect nothing.

Another Soft Whisper Passes Down the Line

Damn this damn blog. Why do I write a damn blog? Laying it all down the line? It's not reality. It's not me. It's just the plain old insanity off the top of my head. It has very little to do with reality. I guess I just write for myself. Damn though. Feel like I may have run off something good with this Gonzo chatter.

you know, sometimes the best way is just to not give a shit

red grape juice
dribbling down his face
grapes
all over his face
salivating
fruits
pulsing
in decay
who cares?
as the laughter
danced down the road
all the little shrimp people
ate their slivers of lime
the ballerinas sipped their blood
and the soft parade licked itself with glee
and rolled on

A Question

When did having a muse become weird and creepy rather than chivalrous?

Well Goodness Gracious.

Big crazy night last night. Took Kingston for a walk this morning in Central Park. The no leashes before 9 am rule is the greatest. He actually gets to be a dog a little bit. So i'm tired. I'm hungover. And i'm happy. I'm happy that i'm in New York, and it seems like maybe I had to come all this way to get freedom from this attachment i've had to this idea of a girl I just couldn't get over. I was raised all over the world, never really had a home. Didn't meet my dad till I was 16. Mom left me with grandparents when I was 2, then they sent me to England to be with her maybe a year or so later, then my grandparents took me back when I was like 4. Then I got shipped off to boarding school when I was 12. It's really not a very sad story. It's the story of a family with too many resources financially, and not enough resources emotionally. But hey, these are tales of luxury problems. But anyways. I guess the whole adventure left me with some serious abandonment issues. I could not be with the people I loved, no matter how hard I longed to or tried. Dad in Greece, Mom in England, Grandparents in Aspen till they divorced, and then it was Aspen, Hawaii, Greece, Houston, England. I could never be in enough places at once. But they were all nice places to be. The whole world is a pretty nice place to be. So anyhoo. When I was 18 I fell in love with a girl who lived far away. And it was the same old story. I couldn't be with her, and I guess that just made me want it all the more. I always seem to fall when there is distance involved. But there was just this one girl who never left my heart. Her name was Jenn. She lived in NY. It took me ten years of longing, desperation, and madness, wanting her to somehow change her life or come to me, or whatever odd insanity. And then it dawned on me. It was like a bolt of lightening. Go to New York. So I did. But i'm starting to think that was the destiny, and the girl just got me here. Now that i'm here I don't really even want to see her. I'm here now. It's over. The trip is done. The circle is complete. There are so many wonderful women, and I feel like loving Jenn has taught my heart to love freely, it has expanded my love into the universe. Now i'm ready to give my love again. Now I'm free. I'm gonna go get a burger. Aloha.

These are the Words the President Said-(click here to read entire speech)

Too many tears have flowed. Too much blood has been shed. All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them) joined in prayer

B.H. OBAMA

38 of the Dao De Jing -Wilhelm Edition. Straight from the Monkeys Mouth... comfort for the insane

Whosoever cherishes Life
does not know about Life
therefore he has Life.
Whosoever does not cherish Life
seeks not to lose Life:
therefore he has no Life.
Whosoever cherishes Life
does not act and has no designs.
Whosoever does not cherish Life
acts and has designs.
Whosoever cherishes love acts but has no designs.
Whosoever cherishes justice acts and has designs.
Whosoever cherishes morality acts
and if someone does not respond to him
he waves his arms about and pulls him up.
Therefore: If DAO is lost, then Life.
If love is lost, then justice.
If justice is lost, then morality.
Morality is the penury of faith and trust
and the beginning of confusion.
Foreknowledge is the sham of DAO
and the beginning of folly.
Therefore the right man abides with fullness
and not with penury.
He lives in being, not in sham.
He puts the other away and adheres to this.

Ferris Lives

I am the nothing that creeps in the night.
I am the place where it doesn't exist.
Behind the illusion
Behind the truth
Everything
Nothing
Nothing
Everything
the illusion
the truth
the clarity
the fog
the dust
the life
I am the nothing
Ain't we all
Future man?