You cannot bargain with truth
There is no negotiation
Only what is
No sophist pseudo-narration
Too many people are lost in words
Our language begets confusion
The argument now before them
Seduces their conclusion
Chuang Tzu from a butterfly
Awakening from a dream
Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man
What can we really say?
If indeed we can?
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DCG
If you are depressed you are living in the past.
Lao Tzu
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Where do we focus our attention?
Events that happen in the past?
Not attending to the moment
Reliving something we cannot change leaves us aghast
To try and predict the future
Always in a state of suspense
A misguided focus
Always living in self-defense
To live in the now
As there is no other choice
Releases our only freedom
Given to our inner voice
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DCG
Truth does not fear investigation
Many investigations do not find the truth
Human minds are falible
You can observe this every day if you want proof
No matter what the subject
No matter what the thought
What matters is how you argue
What matters is how you fought
Your logic will bring you to answers
That you must reconcile and sustain
Can you meet the criterion?
What is it you wish to attain?
If you bend the findings to your liking
If you posit any bias into your view
The results will possibly please you
Yet the result may not be true
We may never truly know the answers
For the questions we fail to ask
And surely we fall into trouble
When we think we are up to the task
We must somehow steer for the middle
As both extremes will drive us mad
Logic and common senses
Are all we really ever had
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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
Woke superiority
Western culture in decay
If you hate your country so much
Than why indeed do you stay?
You give up on any argument
You cannot support your views
You attack, censor, and intimidate
Subvert and control the biased news
The cult conspires around the cauldron
Shouting confections of misery and hate
Swearing allegiance to a philosophy
That cannot win any logical debate
The woke supremacy you tout
Avoids the predicates you create
In the court of public opinion
You capitalize on feelings, manipulate and conflate
You might ensnare the weak-minded
Rest assured of what you berate
The irony of the absurdity you follow
Is seeded in your fate
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DCG
The problem of the disenfranchised
They feel entitled and hold that over our head
No longer respecting the services given
Just think what goes unsaid
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DCG
Visualize the triumph
Discontinue behaviors that do not work
Identify what fails us
Elst we stay in the cirque
Repetitive bad habits
No matter how we justify
Locks up our will
Because we tell ourselves these lies
Precisely what master gives us liberation
Is the same master that enslaves our mind
To see this duality
A gift of sight to the blind
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DCG
So you haven’t had it so easy
For yourself you had to fend
How do I get over my feelings of abandonment?
As a child I had to pretend
Sometimes it takes a lifetime
For you to work things out
If you never take any action
HD Thoreau’s quiet desperation
May surely come about
The ameliorist must make decisions
An ever changing environment we face
How do we improve our situation?
How do we stop running in place?
The path to reach any piece of mind
The thinkers must make amends with the past
Those who feel deeply must forgive any trauma
And mediate the iconoclast
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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
…
DCG
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