In the world of Zen thought, teachers use something called a Koan to instruct students on how to think about things as ineffable as the roots of all thought and knowledge. Many of these come in the form of a verse, some are just stories or parables. All are designed to break down dualistic thinking. Some focus on the unity of nothingness. Some use paradox to focus more on the unobtainable status of what some philosophies consider The Ultimate Reality.
This study of tarot also encounters the problem of words getting in the way of pure, first-hand experience of the ineffable. So - even though I do not profess to have any talent as a writer or poet - I decided to create a page where I could deposit any random notions, or accidental insights, whether in verse or parable, that I think might point to the nature of the ineffable (or the effable) with as few words as possible.
Some of these texts will point to how I think I think, when "see" what I think I've seen, regarding both the ineffable and the effable. Some will be direct and straightforward. Some will be obscure. Some are meant to support popular ideas. Others are meant to question or challnege popular ideas, as a way of suggesting how we might benefit by looking at things another way. I leave it up to you to figure out which ones are which.
You may also see some of these embedded within the text of other pages, as a means of emphasizing a particular point.
Enjoy :-)
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The Origin of Specious
By Guy Palm
In the beginning, there was no beginning.
From that, nothing could emerge.
Thus... something happened.
Something happened to nothing.
Because, nothing lasts forever.
So nothing changed.
Nothing changed into something.
Allowing something to change.
Thus... something could be.
Something could be anywhere.
Because anywhere is everywhere.
Making anywhere nowhere.
Anywhere nowhere is now here.
Allowing nowhere to go.
Thus... nowhere is anything.
Nowhere is anything permanent.
Because anything goes.
Making anything into everything.
Anything into everything is all we know.
Allowing everything to be.
Thus... everything ultimately is.
Everything ultimately is here.
Because ultimately, nothing changed.
Meaning ultimately things begin.
Things begin to end.
To that end, something begins.
Thus... in the end, there is no end.
The End
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Whoosh
by Guy Palm
What some would have us believe to be a fragmentary illusion of a bullet
passed through the fragmentary illusion of a brain.
What some consider to beThe Ultimate Reality, was not affected.
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Finding Our Way
by Guy Palm
With half an eye
We see a lie
In which we die
And so we cry
With fuller sight
We end the plight
By which we fight
For ultimate height
With both ears hearing
And both eyes peering
We find a clearing
To which we're veering
By being gray
We save the day
With no more to say
Because, we've found The Way
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Earth
by Guy Palm
What some would have us believe to be a fragmentary Illusion of humans
created the fragmentary illusion of pollution.
Which ended the fragmentary illusion of planet Earth.
What will be the next illusion?
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Impossible
by Guy Palm
When impossible,
all is possible.
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Believe in Doubt
by Guy Palm
If we choose to doubt
that any doubt
is good,
then we are of doubt
and that doubt
is good.
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Frown
by Guy Palm
What some would have us believe to be a fragmentary illusion of a human
was using the fragmentary illusion of eyes
to scan the superficial, transitory rhetoric of words
in the fragmentary illusion of a book.
The words made her frown.
Suddenly, she was un-enlightened.
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Hurt
by Guy Palm
I can't hurt you
Because you don't exist
nor do I have a fist.
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She Doesn't Have Legs
by Guy Palm
One day, what some consider to be a fragmentary illusion of humans, lost in a world of duality, took up sides and waged a war.
For one, her fragmentary illusion of Self was altered
by the removal of what were arbitrarily labeled by society and language as legs.
Her illusion of legs could not be imagined back.
Where did those legs run off to anyway?
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Not Me
by Guy Palm
Since I don't exist,
I won't exist, again...
... and again ...
... and again ...
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Be My Slave
by Guy Palm
What some would have us believe to be a fragmentary illusion of a human
under the delusion that it exists,
ordered another illusion, which he thought to exist, to be his slave.
The other fragmentary illusion of a human
who knew he did not exist,
could not argue, and thereby create a dualtiy.
So he lived as a slave
until the illusion that society and language arbitrarily and mistakenly calls death
ended the illusion of both of them.
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Neither Mind
by Guy Palm
Empty of mind.
No duality allowed.
To a point of infinite neither.
You hinder no one.
And.
You are of no help to anyone.
You harm no one.
And.
You are no good to anyone.
You use no one.
And.
You are of no use to anyone.
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Oops!
by Guy Palm
What some would have us believe to be a fragmented illusion of a human
arbitrarily identified by society and language as a student
asked a fragmented illusion of a human, arbitrarily identified by society and language as a teacher
"How are you?"
The teacher said
"I am fine, thank you for asking"
Suddenly, they were both un-enlightened.
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Presence
by Guy Palm
Only in absence
is presence confirmed.
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Nothing Eats Itself
by Guy Palm
What some would have us believe to be a fragmented illusion of a tiger encountered the fragmented illusion of a human.
The tiger approached the human with open jaws.
Because the human and the tiger are just illusory projections of what some consider to be an Ultimate Reality,
the human did not fear being eaten.
So, the fragmented illusion of a human was eaten
by the fragmented illusion of the tiger.
Which mattered not to either,
or the Ultimate Reality.
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Blown Away
by Guy Palm
Life's
Words
Erased by time
and blown away.
Then, reincarnated?
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Drunk Driver
by Guy Palm
What some would have us believe to be a fragmented illusion of a human
altered the perceptions of his illusory sense of mind.
His motion through the illusion of space and time became erratic.
Other illusions of reality were eliminated by his path.
But there was no damage,
because nothing exists
for anything to happen.
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One Less Monk
by Guy Palm
For 36 illusionary years, what some consider to be the fragmented illusion of a human sat meditating in silence,
within the fragmented illusion of a room,
within the fragmented illusion of a monastery.
He was not fooled by the illusions of Life.
He forgot dualities,
he forgot himself.
Eventually he was enlightened.
Then, the fragmented illusion of his body went away... and was forgotten.
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Rain
by Guy Palm
If... into each one's life no rain should ever fall,
crops dry up!
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Neither is Not
by Guy Palm
Everything is, or is not.
Humanity either "is" or "is not"
Divinity neither "is" nor "is not"
Being either is being "is."
Being neither is being "is not."
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Make The World Go Away
by Guy Palm
Don't make me to be, or not to be.
Don't make me into this, or that.
Don't put me here, or there.
No dualities, please.
Make the world go away.
Empty of mind, in ultimate neither.
Deny there is good, deny there is bad.
Then, I'll be happy... not sad.
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Letting go
by Guy Palm
Untie and unite.
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History and Mystery
by Guy Palm
History and Mystery
Is that all that
Tarot will every be?
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Diminishing Returns
by Guy Palm
My thoughts
I think
are
Fact,
then...
Fiction,
then...
Fantasy,
then...
Fallacy
then...
Futility,
then...
I wake up.
And write it all down!
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Do Be Do Be Do
by Guy Palm
Do nothing and be anything
Do anythng and be something
Do something and be everything
Do everything and be nothng
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No Is
Not Having Anything is Everything.
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Belief
by Guy Palm
Believe Everything
But Don't
Believe Everything
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NO ON
by Guy Palm
NO
ON
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ON
QI
BE
GO
DO
SO
IT
IS
US
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ALL
AIM
MAP
EYE
SEE
ACT
ART
EGO
WIT
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IDEA
PLAN
PATH
SIGN
FLOW
WAVE
APEX
RUSH
GOAL
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SPREE
ETC..
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The Feeback Loop of Consciousness
by Guy Palm
Collect the dots
then...
Connect the dots
which...
Once connected
are...
Also collected
into...
Collected collections
making...
Connected connections
to be...
Collectted
and...
Connected.
Thus, the mind reels.
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Do What You Are What You Do
by Guy Palm
Everything you are
Determines what you do
Everything you do
Determines who you are
You become what you are
You are what you become
Impress the expressive
Express the impressive
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Perfect Thought
by Guy Palm
Let GO of the rational.
Then...
Let GO of the irrational.
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Look Out for that Dream!
by Guy Palm
DREAM...
then what...
wake up?
or no...
dream on?
except... wait...
LOOK OUT !! ?
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Leave it be
by Guy Palm
Eventually...
That fly will die
And I won't cry.
Not even a sigh.
Just say goodbye.
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Just Do It
by Guy Palm
If no one
can do it.
Become no one
and do it.
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Paradox as a Pair o' Docks
by Guy Palm
Beyond the fast
Beyond the slow
Unique in form, special in flow
Never emptied
Never filled
Either way, can't be killed
Beyond the large
Beyond the small
From any view, more or less all
Whether here
Whether there
Can only be one, as a pair
Between the two
A web like lace
Paradoxically contained, by a place without a place
Life and death
In absentia
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Always a Choice
by Guy Palm
To be or not to be, in duality or unity.
That is the question.
Suffer with choice, and have a voice?
To
Do?
Or instead do naught, without a thought?
To
Be?
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Be Straightforward Subtle
by Guy Palm
When we follow the subtle
without re'buttal,
it's a world view
with a drastic skew.
While being straightforward
to the letter
may in the end
be no better.
The message to send
is to look for a blend,
both in word and in art
be they never apart.
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The Absentia
It is
What it is
When it isn't
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