I cannot help my thoughts
I mean, I can help them
but not continuously
not all the time
I don’t have some kind of
thought filter
that works all the time
Mine’s kind of this
wide
open
thing
It lets everything
in
And it operates
by power
of association
Sure, there are habits
Healthy practices
Purification
Grooves I groove
to smoothe
There’s this relationship thing
This relationship thing
I picked up from
Christians
“God is like a husband,” some say, or,
“Take God as your lover…”
I prefer to see my husband
as the worldly manifestation
of my personal interface to
God as fleshly lover
But God is so much more than lover
There’s worldly manifestation
of my personal interface
of God as Mother, my moms and other moms
of God as Father, my dads and other dads
There’s a lot to it
God as friend… I like that…
God as friend.
So I’m hoping this relationship
this friendship with God,
is helping me get through my thoughts
easily
without guilt
just letting them slip by
or using the ones that have good use
We can cherry pick
That’s the thing these aphorisms have
tended to forget
We can cherry pick
We can take the best
from everything
and take the worst cautions
as just cautions
a kind of cautionary scaffolding
as we build the honed reality
everyone would like to see
(There’s discernment
and then there’s discernment
based on new revealed lessons
Don’t forget the new stuff
For me much old stuff
is new stuff
Don’t forget the old stuff
Or forget
only what’s useful
to forget
Or juxtapose
only what’s useful to
juxtapose
What has utility
What lets you
bend
the corners
better)
You know what?
The best thing is
not
just
thought.
The best thing is
how
thought
creates your actions.
Can your actions
create your thoughts?
I mean, that’s where you’ve worked it all out, yeah?
That’s the best way
to express intent,
well-considered action
Sure, I’d like some kind of capacitor
filter, whatever-thingie
to take irritating spikes
out of my mind
But God, ifn we do have this here friendship thingie
I’m-a-thinkin’ that You can be that capacitor-filter
Take this here Advaita
and do some manipulations
so what cascades
is pretty smoothy groovy
Smoothy groovy loving-kindness
~ Lady