A Drama of Illusion

and the Journey into Wholeness

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in psyche’s dream

taught into us

from the day we are conceived

maya’s enculturated wizardry

formulates us

into a separatist existence

a fragmented clinging self

using slights of hand

with ceaseless manipulations

and with the arc of fear

authority and

the toxic brew of our cultural hierarchy

unfolds the

realm of duality

and illusion

a drama perpetuating drama perpetuating drama

coerced into the drama

as children

we are taught

to not play

to not wonder and be curious

in time

our voices dim

our excitement for life dies

our sight grows dim

as we become coerced

by adults and schooling

into playing our roles

that go against our humanity

becoming instead

unconscious actors and actresses

fulfilling enculturated roles

taught to perpetuate cognitive dissonance

to war against the world

to comidify and consume

to continually keep power in the hands of a few

while blindly working and working

escaping and escaping

busying and busying

so as not to see the

sorrow, dysfunction, and violence

that our culture is

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through traumas and pains

we force down

deep into psyche’s-compartments

into programs

that dictate our reactions

unbeknownst to ourselves.

we play into scales of oppression

and stay busy

never stopping to question

or to see how miserable

everyone is

it doesn’t matter to our culture

war, environmental devastation, poverty, racism, sexism

conflict is our culture’s delight

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Our culture perpetually

keeps us moving

individually and collectively

to develop the addictiveness

of escaping

formulating the myth

that reality is full of suffering and violence

and there is something wrong in us

that things have always been this way

enculturated as children

to feel separate

to normalize the injustice of the system

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the culture normalizes

• making a child think that one’s voice doesn’t matter
• to end curiosity and wonder
• to make one think that all the issues are par for the course of progress

to a school system that is not about learning

but molding children into conformity

to fit into the system’s ideology

from here

we seek out from our lack or from our greed

and we fear what we don’t know or understand

and so we are pulled by pleasure

and run from pain

to keep us all buying in

making one believe that

cultural drama is a reality

for we rarely give ourselves

a moment to pause and question

so….

i paused

i questioned

and like a child

wondered into my mind

with the light of awareness

i began to see

not with intellect

but the open childlike curiosity

i peeled away layer after layer

of maya’s onion

for nothing i thought was true

nothing of culture will last

nothing of my mind was me

and i was done playing the game

i lept

over the edge of duality

no longer content

to satisfy dreams

or live in lies

i was here to expose the dream

to jump where dragons and monsters

roam

and noticed that in the realm of

heaven and hell

was impermanence

and inevitably not real

i lept

with wonder

exploring where

few want to traverse

i dove into the dark

labyrinth of psyche’s roots

and mayas torturous landscape

not looking to change

not looking to identify

not looking to get rid of

but rather to see

to actually fall into

the real I

and so

i kept coming back into

the blazing light

of awareness

and

discovered in this wonder

that this light penetrates all depths

and dispels all illusion and ignorance

all fear and fragmentation

and once present

all is released

all is

and one sees

that there were never any doors nor keys

that all is right here

right now

beyond senses

beyond form

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time/space

can’t enter here

truth is

and here

there are

there are no paths

only an immaculate presence

to where everything

that once was

is no longer

divisions and beliefs

don’t exist

and the idea of getting better

dissolves like clouds

there is no hierarchy

in this infinite wholeness

in awareness

where

sight becomes clarity

maya is perceived directly

and the enculturated psyche’s drama

is seen as

nothing more than a mirage

with the childlike

open wonder

with the childlike open horizons

i am here

beyond all words

all symbols

all ideas

flowing

is where i am

not in holding back

not in covering up

not in appearances

not forced on others

love is

here

right here

there lies nothing else

all is

wholeness

which can’t be contained