ACTIVISM?

Lately, I've been trying to answer to myself this question:
what kind of activist are you?

are you a kind-of-hard nosed,
anti-fufu, clean-the-arroyo type
activist

a quite-fufu spiritual activist,
who at least believes
he can get down and dirty
when necessary

or a non-activist
with an activist
self-image?

The truth is:
I am fu

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My first response to the question
is to become rather defensive

due to the fact that

in the last year my menory
has gone completely to rubbish

and while I think I've done
this and that

I no longer store
excess information
for my ego's sake

my second response is to say
I am here for the ravens

the sequence of words following
you would be likely to predict

to include bliss, being,
definitions of enoughness

and pearly wisdoms like:
aren't we all just looking
for loving eye-contact?

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it is my third response that wins
and that is that I have put my life in order
by choosing to put my faith completely in the Creator

and this has restored my soul to me
and my activism if there is such a thing
comes directly from the fullness of this wisdom

and it is to share this path, the many paths of truth,
the path of Tao, of Tantra, of Jesus
whose specific advice was precisely this

to Love God

and one another

following this path by devoting my attention to it
allows everything else to fall into place
to move as it needs to
in my life

and definitely radiates out from me

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it is therefore tragic
to waste time worrying about things
and dimming my light

and that is why I have moved away
from the world
which I wasn't doing much good for anyway

I admit I gave all I could to community
from the places of should, have-to, duty and panic

I turned a man out on the streets to die last year
because he was drinking in his new apartment
I will not do so again

the system of helping works against helping
while shutting down the heart of the helper

such pain is not my path

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and the relative mind-space and heart-space of that-space
is infinitesimal in both joy and power
to that of Godliness

Through this God-focus
we become vessels for the light
of Spirit to shine through

AND the hands of God
doing the work of Divinity

gently
quietly

and with maximum leverage

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this is the best I can do today
for the child living in the streets
of Gaza, Baghdad, New York

having already washed my feet
of the banking system seeking to imprison the world
who despite the premature reports will fail

perhaps something more

an action
a vision
a request

will come along soon

let us pray so