Thirteen years since our

last meeting

she appears in the

upstairs crowd

i can't believe it

i go to sit next to

her on

the floor

so warm

Then, the house

walls blow out

i'm assured

the central

support

is the strongest

thing need be

And then I realize

she is gone

.

we all think we're crazy the first couple of times. it's certainly scary if you know what it's like. there must be a link between this and the renowned lucid dream -- i'm not sure which i've experienced more often, but i'd love to turn one into the other were it possible.

Dr.

Martin Luther

King Jr. said

,

“Don’t let anyone make you

think that

God has chosen America

as [God's] divine messi

anic force to be reckoned with.”

There are compelling voices who

claim that God

has chosen America (not

the church)

as a special embodiment of hope for

the world, and then

there are times

(perhaps

in more recent history) where it

seems America em

bodies an anti

thesis of what God hopes

for.

U.S. flags

colonize the altars and the money is brand

ed “In God We Trust,” but

the economy is an eerie reflection of the seven deadly sins

listed in scripture, with a culture

dangerously close to the sins of Sodom, a culture the prophet Ezekiel describes as

“arrogant,

overfed, and

unconcerned.”

Given the fact that America and God’s kingdom are

not the same - and

are often at odds - how do

we resist the temptation

of thinking

that America, rather

than God or God’s

church, is the hope of the world?

-- "Questions for an Empire's Candidates"

by Shane Claiborne
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

A street chant

to quake

one

sea-weed green

shingle

off

your neighbor's

roof ---

the pre-agential

one,

if only

because

it lacked the

life

span

to know

to act,

a mutatedmutating,

a gelatin-center

wax bean float-

ing in the deadly

still waters

of nobody,

eatinganddying

mouth less

absorption

until its

no-eye

body collapses

disintegrates

disinterested and

seen by

no one

------- before

the

miracle:

one touch

multicellular adhesion

extraterritorializing compilation,

progressive patterning

of the deoxy-

nucleic that

learned

the

art&power

of

atomic anatomic

reformation ----

the logic of touch

---- cell upon

cell upon

cellup

on,

inside our

apartment rooms

our refridgerators

our bathrooms

our bigtv living

rooms

Can you see?

Can you see?

the chant through

the window

to wake

up to

a mess

on the floor

and my passion to

clean the

outside

soto

&

uchi,

because we touched,

to want for

one without

the other

our egoist and altruist,

or the primitivist deconstruct-

ionist

a desire to

explode,

and the one who

cleans before cleaning

our biobuddhist

and

contemporary

onlooker.

There is nothing wrong with seeking happiness or peace of mind. It is the natural motivation behind all our thoughts and actions. Where we have gone wrong is in assuming that whether or not we are at peace depends upon what is happening in the world around us. ...

This attachment to the material world as our primary source of happiness lies at the root of much of the craziness that humanity perpetuates upon the world. It is this that leads us to consume resources we do not need, to treat other people as elements in an equation, to discharge our refuse out of sight, and to mistreat and abuse our own bodies.

...

If we are to stop abusing our world we need to let go of our attachments. ... In a state of non-attachment we no longer believe that what we have or do will provide the peace that we seek. As a result we are free to care more fully for other people, and for all living beings.

Thus the most important fight of all at this crucial stage in our evolution is not the fight against hunger, the fight against inflation, the fight against pollution, or the fight against corrupt governments. Each is very necessary and cannot be relaxed. However, they will not be won until we have also won the fight within ourselves: the struggle between our self-centered mode of thinking and the inner knowing that there is more to life than gratifying our ego-centric needs.

－　The Global Brain Awakens,
Peter Russell

「きみのところの人たちは」と王子さまは言った、「たった１つの庭で５０００本のバラを育てている……それでも自分たちが探しているものを見つけられない……」

"The people of your world," said the Little Prince, "grow 5000 roses in a single garden... And yet they can't find the one special thing they are searching for..."

「そうなんだ」とぼくは答えた。

"Yes," I answered.

「みんなが探しているものはたった１本のバラやほんの少しの水の中に見つかるのに……」

"Even though that one special thing can be found in just one rose or the littlest bit of water..."

「そのとおりだ」とぼくは言った。

"It's true," I said.

王子さまはこう付け足した ---

The Little Prince replied with this ---

「目に見えないんだ。心で探さないとだめなのさ」

"It can't be seen with the eye. It can't be searched for by any other way than the heart."

－　『星の王子さま』

Le Petit Prince (my translation),

Antoine de Saint-Exupery