Sayings

Here is a list
of sayings,
designed to help you
to keep from drowning
in this world,
and none of them
are true,
they are just things
that we say,
1. It's all good
2. It's neither good nor bad
3. It's a good/bad thing
4. Life is suffering
5. Everything good is bad and everything bad is good
6. Life sucks and then you die
so these sayings
are little bits 
of philosophy,
to help you realize
that you can't really
say anything.

The Kind Of Painting That I Like

I like 
paintings
that look like
a monkey could do them,
and I tend to not like
paintings that look like
they were done
by a skilled, professional
artist,
who has studied
the art of painting
for a long time,
and has great skill
in presenting
works that look like
something real,
no, I like like an artist
who just slops some paint
on a canvas
and calls it art,
and I know
that I am in
the minority on this,
but that's OK
with me.

Zen Is Like This

Zen is like
a plant,
and the flower
is motion,
fullness, sound,
thinking,
and life as we see it,
but the root of the plant
is stillness,
emptiness, silence,
not-thinking,
and the nothingness
of existence
as some of us
perceive it,
so I delight
in the flower,
and only perceive
the root
occasionally,
because it is buried
and hidden
from our ordinary mind.