THE GREAT EMPTINESS
 

There is a great emptiness that needs to be filled;
a man spends his life doing so;
the emptiness is an illusion,
and those things with which he fills it,
are solely imaginary too. 

For all ordinary men,
there is a great emptiness that must be filled;
with the few: it is later emptied back out… on the sly.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

        THE CLUELESS INVESTIGATOR
 
 

There is an investigator of a certain pressing matter --
                               who has no clue 
                               as to what he do.
His sensation is that the case is important & urgent,
but his concepts of “urgent” & “important” are faulty.
He does not understand what now looks like,
nor how meaningful smells.

He is on the case --
the only investigator, on-the-case  --  and yet --
he hasn’t got a clue, (which is not the real problem):
he doesn’t even suspect that he -- doesn't-have-a-clue.

         Discovering that this investigator never has a clue
                               is the solving of the case.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                  THE DRIVERLESS CAR

There is a vehicle that has no driver.
It moves, and it does so with apparent intention;
but it is a trompe l'oeil.
It is a vehicle that moves, 
but its intentions are only revealed after the fact.

An apparition of a driver seems in the seat,
and when queried, speaks as if knowledgeable of 
the requirements for vehicular movement;
but it is a specter --
there is no one  driving-the-car.

He who sees this --  sees the road, 
                        then he – understands.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

           THE DOORLESS ROOM
 

There is a room, quite popular with men, 
which has no door.
The room is most unusual, and affords experiences available no place else.
Some men prefer it above all others,
and all men frequent it some.

The room has no door --  and no one seems to notice.
There is no way in, and no way out, 
…yet no one questions how they arrive there.

There being no ingress,
obviously nothing can be brought in,
yet the room is both filled-to-the-brim,
and also constantly replenished;
…yet no one is curious.

Men are troubled by the room;
some seek to simply avoid it; 
others try to clean it out;
a few struggle to permanently close it up;
none succeed;
…yet all remain troubled by it.

There is an ill that has no cure;
it is an ill that is caused by attempts to treat it,
this is not correct, but at first seems so;
there is an ill that has no cure, for it is
an ill that is fed by attempts to treat it,
and mind cannot distinguish between 
ills-from-its-own-dreaming,  and,
treatments that come from its dreams.
 
 

A clueless investigator
in a doorless room -- deep in a great emptiness,
who got there in a car with no driver,
and now struggles to diagnose an illness which 
no one can see, and which if it did exist, 
would perforce be imaginarily iatrogenic,
(in that he is a hospital with no doctors.) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

     THERE IS THAT, BEYOND WHICH
 

There is a sight beyond which 
there is nothing else to see.
The sight is the understanding.

There is a sight, after having seen which, there is nothing else to say  --   and
the sight itself is unspeakable.
The sight is the secret.

                  Where does this leave the matter of: 
                     “THE SECRET UNDERSTANDING”.
 

                                           J
 
 
 

Did you note a suffix in several of the headlines,(i.e.):
clue-LESS; driver-LESS; door-LESS, and did it remind you of
the superior importance of less-NESS in understanding?
More is an ass requesting that additional books be added to 
the load he bears.
Less is what seekers seek, and only those who discover this, find.