What is Enlightenment? (About.com tries to Answer)

 The Sanskrit word for enlightenment is "bodhi," which means "awakened." But awakened to what?The only true answer to the question is to realize enlightenment. Short of that, we must come up with provisional answers that, the teachers tell us, do not really do justice to enlightenment.Enlightenment can be defined as the cessation of dukkha, which is…… Continue reading What is Enlightenment? (About.com tries to Answer)

Fill In The Open Space

 BGK…   is a very nice young man   making sandwiches and his own meals now   all over Skype, Facebook, and other online apps   pondering what tonight will turn into   updating his status, most often in third person   has a headache   wants you to read what’s in the news  …… Continue reading Fill In The Open Space

The Chron

air flowto troubled lungslike everyone already knowsget there somehowuh huh noddingof in and out breathsimulates other ins andouts in lifeups and downsto and acrossa problem chronic paper dove smashing

Running For Something

I just realized I have 1,200+ entries on here, here on LiveJournal!and don’tcall metrendy, okay?just don’tyou know, ‘cuzI’m on a "service"an Internet service…what do youWANT me to be on, a horse?the connection is Not as Goodthis iswhat you get…and well, I dohave my forumskinda in the same waymy mom goes…I gotta watch my showsI can’t…… Continue reading Running For Something

Diagnosed…

to be quite honest I’ve been diagnosed with Laundry Procrastination which is not the same as Vagina Dentata or Dick Lord-tata but I promise once the heat is back up in a day or so… I’ll be down at the machines carrying out my civic duty… I do not owe too much else to the…… Continue reading Diagnosed…

The Design Is A Raw Deal

the processor infuriatesfrustrating work in the programs andwatching the eternal spinning beachball of deathmake your next movewait some morehope the thing won’t crashsave save along the way to make Surea designer’s first world problemssimilar to “what should I say to her?”how to make that next move?wait, wait some moreugh, the yellow brick road paived with…… Continue reading The Design Is A Raw Deal

Teaism, Coloring ABCs

Samantha buys me tea from a shop in Portland that will help me breathe better at night, only what will it matter(?) if by morning our flight is for a return to India, dusty, where I also take my parents for the first time. We land and on that very day comes news of a…… Continue reading Teaism, Coloring ABCs

Here

fashion show at the super market the landlord wants into our apartments all the time people are trying really hard it is a day of green beverage some bow out this is the Southern Tea Society’s way of showing they care she is fairly disorganized certainly a little crazed, high strung tears flow like a…… Continue reading Here

Sitting In The Window

see, there’s a breezeit doesn’t do any goodcoughing into a walllungs constrict day-long shoes glowaround feet Kicked upin the chairnarrow passage waymore strange conversationswith selfRudra one-two paws the doorsleep comes at the oddest hoursso much time wasted and you can hear theneighbor cough toochill dealt to back of neck autofillear rest old paintingsphantasm on the…… Continue reading Sitting In The Window