Archive for February 2010

towards a positivity bias

buddha observed that we are of types.
delusional, aversive, greedy.

never one to exclusion, or to define you.
not that there is such a thing.

but we live and we play with habits of want.
wanting more. wanting less. wanting solipsism.
these roiling currents of craving.

we move through moments, in reaction and action.
shift happens.

but just have a private moment, with that moment, for a moment.
apart from any nonmoments clamoring.

they don’t exist anyway.

sail your ship as Theseus. shift happens.
so weather all weather, all storms of wanting.
the nots, be others, and mores.

young sailors clutch and cry in pain.
old ones are at the rudder, but never there.

simply have a moment, with your moment, for a moment.
or the nonmoments may have you.

but good news – you don’t have a moment to lose.