Each and every rehearsed or unrehearsed step that you would take

Must have a fastened down tempestuous platform

There is no action you would be able to take

Without some level of measured repercussion

All that you can do is manage the damage, the reactivity

By choosing each action with mindful ascendency

By taking only the steps that would infuse this ethereal plane

With the organic energy

To fertilize its fallow fields

 

How can or should you be able to do any of this at all?

Seismic volcanic eruptions would lay themselves out eagerly before you

Awaiting only the activation of the footfall

And we cannot engage in existential planning

To set up bastions of protection against it

 

All of that would simply lead to acrimonious events

That would tangentially remove us from the present

And leave us fixated

On what could be

By every fluttering of a butterfly’s wings

By every attempt to predict the future

We would only modify the path, inundate the cosmic forces

With buckshot rifle cannons to disintegrate the truth

 

We can admonish ourselves not to do or say

Anything that would not bring kindness

To steer away from any events that are not the result

Of compassion

This can be our goal, our intention, our resolve

 

But we must always be wary of the hidden volition

That lies within

Sits around and awaiting

The threshold of the task

In order to steer the course away

From the right outcome

By interjecting, propagating, internal egoic stimuli

That would steer our course away from what is right

From what is the dharmic path

For the ego thrives only when it causes suffering to others

 

How can we control, or wrest away control

From the inner volition of the savage ego sabotage

That occurs when we innocently and passively

Without recognition

Permit the ego to take the wheel and steer the course

To clandestinely modify the volition of the task

Of the speech, of the motion, of the action

To reach an outcome for which we on the surface

On the highest level of conscious awareness

And interactions with the material world

Had no intention?

 

This can only be accomplished by complete and total awareness

From the expansion of the mind and the soul

Like the exponential weavings of the spider’s web

To draw out the encapsulated vessels within

That would harbor ill will

That would sequester and allow to fester

The unnamed and unclaimed

Animosity within

That would trampoline forth when the moment arises

To steer our feet away from the karmic path

 

We must expand the mind, the awareness

To pluck out all these cells of derision, indifference and scorn

Expose them to the light

Wrestle them into the refracted gaze

Of universal consciousness

Of the eternal campaign of the watcher

To tether the indiscretions of the past

To evacuate the freight-train persona

Of the egoic mind

To jettison the surreptitious plans

Of the narcissistic hidden volition

That rests within the shadow night of the soul

 

To be ever vigilant, to evolve and grow

Until every breath we take, every step we take

Is undertaken without the potential for hidden

Corruption of the soul

To eliminate all the deceit within

To expose it all to the evaporating light of nirvana

So there is no other path to take

But one that leads us to peace

And loving kindness