TRUE LIES
Numbers don’t lie, people do.
Pictures don’t lie, those using them do.
The problem is that our perceptions and interpretations
Aren’t veridical.
Who knows the truth? It is the mind that lies
Due to its internal distortions;
Being bent out of shape
Is the main problem. Knowledge as we know it
Gets in the way.
Of clear vision.
Who can see things just
As they are,
Rather than as we’d like
Them to be? The masters say that not seeing
Is true seeing, not knowing
Is authentic knowledge;
Not finding
Is finding. I
Recommend it. There are no families without conflict.
Everything follows its own nature;
All return to themselves.
Like waves in the sea
Although many seek the mountain
From which the tides of birth and death have receded,
We’re born we die,
Returning again and again to the ground
Which bears us.
We don’t need to pacify ourselves or find peace;
everything is already perfectly
at peace. Mirrors are revolutionaries.
One look and you’re no longer a mask.
Death is necessary for evolution.
Nothing is necessary.
According to string theory, the universe is
Two nine-sided slabs of crystal clear space
Facing each other.
Everything happens, nothing is
For long. Nothing
Remains.
