The Return to Wonder


VI

If you are nothing more than timeless, spaceless, momentary awareness;

If there is in reality, no entity, no existence, what can possibly reincarnate?

 

 

XXIII

Did you choose to be born?

Did you pick your parents and family?

Your body? Your geography? Your circumstances?

Some would assert that this is one of countless reincarnations,

But do you know it as bona fide truth for your Self?

And does any of it really even matter?

 

 

XXXIV

You reincarnate in every time-bound moment

That you re-identify with this sensory illusion.

 

 

XXXVII

Where will you be when you stop reincarnating?

 

 

XLIV

You will reincarnate until you die for the last time,

With the complete surrender to your total nature.

 

 

XLVII

Your moment-to-moment rebirth, your reincarnation,

Is an outcome of your interwoven passions,

Your mistaken faith in the illusions cast by the senses,

And the mind’s ceaseless will to continue its ethereal weaving in time.

 

* * * *

You have already reincarnated countless times during just this lifetime’s imagined identity.

 

 

LXVI

Remember that who-what-where-when-why-how you have always really been,

Is not in any way, not in any shape, not in any form, about any reincarnation.

 


 

CXXXI

Even if he was somehow able to reincarnate,

Most believers probably would not recognize the real Jesus,

Because they at best only have some artist’s idolatrous rendition in mind.

 

 

CLXII

Just remember that it is you who wakes up every day,

And makes the mortal choice to reincarnate,

To pick up and carry the bag of shit

Stinking up the mind.

 

 

CXLV

Universes come and go, bang and crunch.

Is there some sort of reincarnating lineage?

Or just a mystery improvising new creations,

Ever the same awareness in every version?

 

* * * *

You reincarnate daily, who knows how many times.

 

 

CLXX

You are reincarnated in each and every thought.

 

 

CLXXI

Are you individually reincarnated, or is that game

Merely your general stream of consciousness

Playing out delusion in the indivisible mind?

 

 

CCX

 

So-called reincarnation is just another pointless point in the same old eternal nowless now.

 

 

CCXIX

Every mask and costume ever worn has fallen off again and again.

Consciousness imagining, consciousness reincarnating, each and every role.

Ever-remembering, ever-forgetting, within the illusory undulations of time and space.

It morphs even as you translate this; never anything but what it ever is, and is not,

Except in the sensory mind imagination ever deludes itself into calling your own.


 

CCXXV

Reincarnation, being born again and again, is an easy excuse for complacency.

 

 

CCLI

Any given point of this dreaming of awareness you call your life

Is only connected by the reincarnation of imagination.

The neuron trail of the brain deceives us all.

Every moment is a new and ever-changing beginning

If you are able and willing to detach from those so many memories.

 

 

CCLXII

You reincarnate every moment you imagine your identity real.

 

 

CCLXIII

Reincarnation is imagination gone native.

 

* * * *

What would life be like if you were not giving so much energy

To the ever-present reincarnation of an imagined identity?

 

 

CCLXXVII

Maybe reincarnation is some sort of remedial, corrective thing

For those many who cannot seem to figure it out

In the first few billion lives or so.