When expectation
And reality collide
What do you get?
What do you hide?
Contingent on your belief
Contingent on your assessment
Are you at risk?
Do you have an emotional investment?
Now what do you do?
Egg on your face?
Make an excuse?
Another time, another place?
Does it really surprise you?
How good can you get?
We are just human
Or did you forget?
The arrogance of ego
Will make its play
A priori ?
What do you say?
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DCG
This can get complicated
In case study after case study I find
The intellectual and the emotional
In the aggregate are not well defined
That is to say
Cognitive ability
Does not ensure
Emotional stability
Though the two are entangled
Beyond most peoples awareness
Easier to see in others
Because this does not usually scare us
Are we so keen?
As to diagnose another?
Or is this just a pretense?
To place yourself above your brother?
The curious mind turns inward
Attempt to use introspection as a tool
But only the best of us
Will not become the fool
Self discovery is vital
For every human being
But it usually takes others
To guide through the unforeseen
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DCG
The mind will create
A fiction, a myth, a way to explain
To decipher a reality
That we wish to retain
We have limited ability
The flaws of our reason have surely been told
The errors of our thinking throughout our history
There is much to behold
Some ideas act as a placebo
It makes you feel better if you believe
Yet it remains untrue
It is you that you deceive
Reality is not a subject
That we can all agree
Whether it be ethics
Or whether it be epistemology
The search for a universal
The search of a collectivity
May not ever be realized
If only in the shadow of clarity
Common sense is not common
Our logic will often betray
Our better sense of judgement
A logical argument in decay
The political academics
Argue over political philosophy
This is precisely why the constitution was born
To stifle any attempt with tyranny
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DCG
Why must we torture ourselves?
With guilt and shame?
The miracle of forgiveness
It is our upadana that we must tame
We can bond to our appetites
Or any maladaptive behavior
Be mindful of this truth
Or be mindful of your savior
We have the ability to overcome this suffering
Yet we fail to correctly act
Part of the human condition
Part of a natural fact
We are creatures of habit
Most people operate on the limbic system and react
It’s the higher neo-cortex
We must keep intact
Ancient wisdom or modern psychology
Where do you place your trust?
Which sources are accurate?
Which sources are just?
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DCG
If you tell me your opinion
The first thing I will do
Is consider your past behavior
To interpret this spoken view
There are countless ideas
Put into practice there are only a few
Do you live up to what you purport?
The logic of the evidence is only up to you
Before you rain comment
Deliberating what you think is due
Start first by looking within
Are you consistent in what you think as true?
The mind can distort our experience
On what we may purview
If you argue in moral dialogue
Are you impervious to critical review?
A superior intelect
Will always question what they construe
To live by what they say
Remains to be tested on what will ensue
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DCG
It’s a bitter pill to swallow
My Johari window is open for me to see
A glimpse of my reality
What are the chances I will change how I’ll be?
It’s hard to perceive your self correctly
In the shadow of your own ego
The defenses we erect to protect us
Are hidden deep and will seldom ever show
Personal objectivity is a utopian concept
Yet it is still a celebrated goal
It takes great effort and great discipline
For us to master the soul
The commoner or the sage
All have fortuitous opportunities
Align with what you value
Align with no disunities
Authenticity carries heavy weight
How we act is subject to review
To improve upon your character
Is clearly something we should pursue
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Writing down my thoughts
I Journal them in code
Keeping secrets to myself
watching this mind erode
In courage and sincerity
It doesn’t always turn out right
When approaching a truthful account
We sometimes cower in its sight
Yet we must come to terms
With the failures from our past
Whether we confront them head-on now
Or whether we allow them to fester and last
What we tend to follow
Is what we tend to believe
How we write it down
Relies on what we preconceive
Consider reading your journal
From twenty years ago
How do you fare?
Did you eat crow?
Memory and cognitive dissonance
Shows written word as evident
Have you ever really changed?
Is this why you are so petulant?
Finding out about yourself
From another self of the past
Isn’t really a bad thing
Did you live up to the forecast?
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DCG
The damning judgements
That some friends and family members make
Often disrupts a healing
For a soul’s sake
Maybe they are not all wrong
Maybe they only see just one part
However if not being careful
You can persuade a person to depart
Separation from friendship
Separation from the family
Separation from supportive voices
May lead to uncalculated calamity
Do we make haste?
Do we look beyond our own need?
Do we project our own views?
Are we open to concede?
Are you giving advice?
Are you listening to me?
Do you like to hear yourself talk?
Just put it on the Marquee
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DCG
The moment before
You drift off to sleep
A memory comes to you
One that is buried deep
Memories often populate
And integrate with your dreams
Leaving with you a communiqué
To unravel the schemes
The mind has a way
To process the unrest
Perpetuating those feelings
You may have suppressed
A subconscious attempt
To resolve any dissonance
A conscious mindfulness
The conscription of imminence
Be you of conscious mind
Be you one to search your soul
I present to you
Our cognitive tool for quality control
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DCG
The key of captivity
Lies in the ability of the mind
Break the cycle of learned helplessness
Your freedom you will find
The fundamentals of illusion
Breed attachment and pain
When trapped in the problem
The solution we search for is in vain
Become the escape artist
Study the trap you are in
Visualize the possibilities
Become the Houdini and begin
The levels and degrees of servitude
We levy or subjugate
We mold our reality
Much of what we create
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Teacher enticing student to see
Constructs in our minds
Can also be just folly
The statement below is false
The statement above is true
A liars paradox
Another Waterloo
The duck or the rabbit?
Wittgenstein would ask
Which will give way?
Which one will last?
The Zen koan, the Greek paradox, and Wittgenstein
All demonstrate a vantage point to see
Problems of human reasoning
All contingent on how we will be
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DCG
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