The Sock-Monkey As Alone

What is spirituality? Being spiritual is the pursuit of what is sacred. What’s sacred is what’s holy. What’s holy is what sanctified what s sanctified is what matters to god. Let me start this off by saying you can’t expect me to speak for god. All I know is what I have learned through trial and error to understand my place in the little corner of my universe I call my home. Were only going to use my personal experience because it’s practical. Your not writing this I am. I’ve known success and I have known failure but when we go to sleep at night that’s enough so why should death be any different emptiness is form, form is substance and freewill tells us what we are made of. We are all guilty before gods holy law. No matter what we do our works can’t save us. It only through grace that we are saved. So why should we try to keep the law? Because we have nothing better to do, Or because the commandments are the only guideline we have to what the skillful behavior of this life is. Zen has...

I like to keep my foot in my mouth so I know where it is/v\/ I wake up and see a red light burning like embers through my blanket, I raise myself out of bed and see a humanoid neon fire staring at me with a toothless jack o’ lantern grin. I'm not scared, I'm not nervous, I go back to sleep./v\/ A teenage girl in gods country opens a door and asked me while I was staring at a “cool” Volkswagen. "what are you looking for?" I glared at the ground and grinding my teeth at my own lust and said "I don’t know?" she a little weirder for the thought said "alright." with a painful emphasis on each syllable./v\/ the door slammed shut, I heard two footsteps and she was gone. sitting inside of the car looking at the cartoon voodoo doll key chain thinking how easy it would be just to drive off with it, but thinking better of it. I was already down the road when a man yelled at 'me “what are you doing here” obviously annoyed and passed his patience with ...