Sunday, August 16, 2015

A poem written on Mudjimba Island, December 2014

The earth is a place where humans live together
We have troubles
Evergy is necessary for our survival
We get energy from the earth and sun
Technology has enabled energy to be supplied to us in excess
Man has attachments
Fat and sugar are amongst them
So is sex
Sex is necessary for our survival
Every person has a mother and father
Family is the essential unit of human existence
Perhaps we all started as one family
No-one knows if Jesus or Buddha existed, but human oral history records and remembers them
If only as a symbol
Jesus symbolises forgiveness
Sin is equal to attachment
Money and power allow sex and fatty and sugary foods to be delivered at will
Financial security is essential for survival
A child is raised under the financial stability of their family
A person can develop any skill he applies himself to
A child learns quicker than an adult
A man can use his skill to deliver an income
Some men can use their hands to build things
All trades require a cognitive aspect and a physical aspect
The end products always have an element of their creativity and it is art
A man's greatest work of art is a house he builds for himself
A man has fat on his belly to show how much wealth he has
A child lives under their parents until it is time to start their own family
The cycle of life is ever repeating
A rainforest is in perfect harmony between birth and death; the dead trees power survival of their offspring shooting up around them
Genetic lineage reveals who is one's mother and father
The cycle of life is not complete until the mother and father unite - asexual reproduction as trees and bacteria do is only propagating versions of themselves.
Until they find a partner
With each generation is improvement
An animal has instincts necessary for survival. They are:
- Territory
- Sex
- Protection of infants
- Acquisition of food
Humans have all the same instincts
We pass on knowledge of how to survive to our children with culture
Laziness is a form of attachment
All work has rewards
A man must work against his will
Any animal will grow fat if given an excess of food
Our role as humans is to overcome this urge
All work is a series of choices or decisions
Avoiding making a choice forms a barrier to achievement
All choices, when they are made, are usually the right ones
Any choice that seems like the wrong one we make to teach us a lesson
The human body is God's work of art
All evolution has led to our development
Religion and science are confused in opposition - they are both seeking the same truth from opposite sides.
The church seeks power to satisfy the attachments of its leaders just as a large corporation does
However, every religion houses good hearted individuals who embody the principles of Jesus or Buddha, which is to love one another, and forgive others for their misdoings against us
For they cannot be blamed
They are only facilitating their own survival or falling back on cultural norms granted to them by their parents which may be flawed
All men are one - however we are separated into tribal groups with shared genetics to aid our survival
A large group of people united by nationality and religious symbols can maintain possession of some land
All geographic forms are female - that's why we say
"There she is"
"Thar she blows"
"She'll be right"
The Earth has birthed us, so she is female
Attachment and greed are easily fallen towards
The sore in the side of Coolum is an example of this
An individual would have made a sum of money by extracting those rocks, and so would those he sold them to
But they cannot be blamed
They are only ensuring their survival
The garden of Eden in the bible is the Earth itself
Perhaps some people have not yet separated themselves from God and live in harmony with her
The earth is a bountiful garden
Our intellectual superiority to other species means we can survive at the top of the food chain
We can even take command of giant species like the elephant and train whales in ponds - but we must be careful with these species to ensure we do not use them to satisfy our desires
The body is in decay, always
All arrangements of matter are temporary
Even the great pyramids, built to defy mortality, will one day crumble away
Sooner or later we will die and our bodies will return to the Earth

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