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	<title>Norman Allan's Blog &#187; Consciousness</title>
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		<title>Music as Buddhisatva</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ee&#8217;s as complex as any of us
but he spends his days
his life
playing music
which lends him some bliss
cause it spills him into wordlessness
highlights flux (the mirror of impermanence)
and makes emptiness easy
music: the void that dances
selflessly


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		<title>The Shiva Sutras</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am posting  a version of the
Shiva Sutras that I typed onto ink blots
back in 1968
(The sutras are useful
and the ink blots are beautiful)



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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[this is for Jesus
this is for Jesus
caused nobody else is listening
Jesus by default
halfway to Calvary
waiting on the end of days
or the jackpot
that’s the Mona Lisa
inscrutable smile
ease of days
Grace
what passeth all understanding
but comforts my confusion
waiting on the end
for here are the empty nights
that follow the lonesome days
they cover the loathsome ways
of the enterprise
did the Lord give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>devoutly to be desired</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[devoutly to be desired
 
I.
“I’ve got it down
to a poignant tear or two” she said
but she lets the flood flow so easily
II.
river of life
it keeps flowing
it’s endless
they say
river of life
ocean of God?
you know those turtles
or elephants
that were all the way down
the wise speak
of an ever-present peace
and love
or bliss
as the conscious substance of the universe
the light
the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>presence: a poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

“presence” 
 
 
It was in the shadow
under the trees
in among the repeated fragments
me running
jogging
in the bright morning light
of early summer
Another dog walker
a little ahead
broad beamed
and among my self judgment
(on judging her beam)
somewhere there was Presence
again amid the filtered light
bright greens
a solidity in this grey pantsd figure
and a cross reference
to a nice chat
with Madera Tee
yesterday
a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fragments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[and still I am fragmented
fragments of thought
of life
here watching my friend die
and in this scrawl
reaching for monuments
and still I am fragmented
tripping back to catch
a stream
a meme about
past and present
wondering if the past is gone
and then Proust is no more
then a dinosaurs snore


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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[happenstance
It’s a matter of happenstance
and the deal
and the grave
The deal God made with the devil
Do you remember the train
in that old black and white movie
roaring through the night?
And that same old movie
the calendar’s daily pages
falling like leaves
The flickering days blown in the wind?
Our lives like leaves
our memories
Cleopatra on the Nile
I saw her in the distance
before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>untitled: &#8220;I&#8217;m moved&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[untitled: I’m moved
I’m moved
nowadays
by small things
which is better than nothing at all
but trite to write about
I’m glowing with platitudes
found it true that gratitude
is a quiet blessing
I think I’m ready
to give up ambition
renunciation fills me up
the autumn is so cool

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		<title>thin as smoke: take two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[as thin as smoke
as thin as smoke
incense before an altar
smelling of roses
smelling of shit
which is it
swirling
phantoms
a life led
Maggy says we are the river
Maggy says we are the smoke
Maggy says we’re Living Spirit
Maggy says it’s not a joke

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		<title>dumbfounded</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[dumbfounded


 
they say the map
is not the terrain
and words are symbols
concepts are abstractions
aren’t they?
abstracted from the map
the babbling mind
that pull us out of presence
we are removed by the chatter
from the stuff that matters
and though the feel is real
it’s the quiet visual
that leaves me dumbfounded

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