Zen Contemplation

Most Zen practitioners
wouldn't recommend it,
but I practice
Zen contemplation,
which is a practice
that I do,
sitting in a chair
or on a sofa,
where I remain
in the first stage
of Zen,
which is the stage
of thinking,
and I allow myself
to think of anything
that comes up,
but I try
not to get angry,
depressed or sad,
and try to practice
the power of positive thinking,
so, in my head,
there is music,
which I try to keep going
with the Great Dharani
of the Heart Sutra,
and since
I hear voices
arising in the mind,
my ego talks
to them,
in a kind of conversation,
so that is the main part
of my Buddhist practice,
and I do it
in order to change
my depressed chemistry
in the body/mind
into an uplifted chemistry.

The Good/Bad Pill

I have discovered
a new medicine
that acts
as a mood stabilizer
and an anti-depressant,
and it is called
the good/bad pill,
and it requires
no prescription
and no doctor,
so if you
are down and depressed,
just think
that this is a good/bad world
and you are a good/bad person
and everybody else
are good/bad people,
and I mean
good in the sense
of liking it,
and bad in the sense
of not liking it,
so if you think that,
your depression
will probably lift,
and your mood
will probably improve,
as I know
because I have been taking
the good/bad pill
for awhile now,
and I feel
much better.