Voluntaries from the Invisibles
Douglas Milburn
Part the Ninth
Parvuli ejus ducti sunt in
captivitatem,
ante faciem tribularitis.
Her children have been led
into captivity
in front of the oppressor.
--Jeremiah.
1. What does the leaf know
of the root?
Precisely that is what the self
knows of its source.
2. Build all the walls you
want.
Tomorrow is as fenceless as yesterday.
3. Bluebonnets, white
magnolias, red azaleas:
beware the sand foundation
of any science or religion
that tried to separate
color from the world.
4. Playmates abound and
await.
5. The quest is not to
make the invisible visible
but first knowable
and then viable.
6. As with electric shock
to restart the silenced heart
so too with psychedelic shock
to reopen the occluded mind.
7. Addendum to Lao-Tze:
Those who speak can not know
and those who know can not speak.
8. The simultaneity
of multiply inhabited times.
9. Like the earth and its
strata
the mind and its time layers.
Go down on yourself.
10. Self-mind-expansion.
The psychedelic movement,
part the second.
11. Change the mind
change the world.
12. Each mind is a
symposium.
For several millennia
discussion has been impossible
because of the incessant, compulsive chatter
of loudmouth verbal ego,
which falls silent only in sleep.
13. Another of the lessons
of Magellan
is that once you finally get across the Pacific
you don’t force conversion on the nativ3es.
14. The infinitely
regressive paradox
of the self-conscious flower.
15. From orgasm we
naturally
if incorrectly
infer divinity.
From pain we
infer utter divinity.
From the constant waking perception
of identity we
infer the dispensation of infinitude.
16. I wake up to find
not a sleek black monolith
in my room
but a lead-gray blob
settle
on my shoulders.
it fancies itself
a singer
and starts the day
by warming up:
"Me – me – me – me!"
17. After centuries of
practiced avarice and
muted desire
the poetasters rule
and rule and rule
like wordy
subprime mortgage lenders
and metametrical
hedge-fund managers
afloat on
enriched on
much-praised
cotton-candy
molehills.
Gobble gobble gobble.
18. Imagine a world
where Beethoven’s hearing
is perfect and
his audience deaf.
19. The congruity and
simultaneity of
all analogics
makes nanometers of
parsecs
vulvas of canyons and
penises of mountains.
20 . What kind of farmer
chooses
to contemplate the soil
rather than till it?
What kind of human chooses
to contemplate the self
rather than be it?
21. Teach the sleeping
self
to wake up
and the waking self
to sleep.
22. All inlets
conceal
big fish.
23. Those content with
setting shallow hooks
find
serious fishing tips
ridiculous.
24. Alligators and whales
that occasionally rise to
the surface
should be avoided
not shot
or worshipped
or even angled for.
25. Pole, line, sinker
hook, bait:
Keys come in
many disguises.
26. Without a proper key
patience is no virtue.
27. I can judge my key
and yours
only by
what I
and you
do with
the opened door.
28. Patience, yes, and
propitiation.
29. Any fool, by stepping
outside
at night and looking up can see
the end of the universe but who
can see the end of wisdom?
30. No matter the
mind’s refraction,
the angles of incidence of the light
that falls on you remain constant
and infinite.
31. It is possible to
storm the gates of heaven
but only to great and disastrous effect.
What is required for a successful approach
is the learning of an attentive patience
so great that it pervades and extends to
the limits of your being. This task
subsumes all others.
32, The religions have
death covered.
Dont they?
So stop reading this blasphemy
and return to their open, eager arms.
Your worries will be over.
Wont they?
33. Medicine papers over
its massive failure
with countless tiny successes.
34. Who is the greater
actor,
the only who becomes the roles
or the one who becomes
the becoming of the role?
35. How to recognize false
prophets?
By their gilded tongues.
36. Learn to divert the
stream of consciousness
into the playrooms of paradox.
If you don’t nothing changes.
If you do everything changes.
37. The survival mind can
never explain
enough for its satisfaction.
Hence the inevitable fallback on
religious, commercial, or scientific myth.
38. When bodies left to
learn of time
in landscapes lush and green at last
expire what hold them there when vast
er home and better friends in rhyme
and music nightly quietly beckon?
Lost songs and empty pens I reckon.
39. At a point languages
becomes not only
undesirable but irrelevant, misleading,
intolerable, unnecessary.
For some the rest is silence.
For others it is silent arts:
music, dance, painting, sculpture,
woodworking, gardening, cooking,
architecture, interior design,
service, charity, nurture of
the old, young, and sick.
40. A first step: keep
present and ponder distant realities.
A second step: learn to grasp the truth that they are not distant.
41. A starving body knows what it needs.
A starving mind,
habituated in one way of perceiving
and one way of thinking
doesnt.
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the
First
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Second
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Third
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Fourth
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Fifth
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Sixth
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Seventh
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Eighth
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Ninth
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Tenth
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