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Friday, July 2, 2004
My personal religious "laugh test"
As far as I'm concerned, if an organized religion doesn't allow women an equal opportunity to become spiritual leaders, that religion doesn't even pass the laugh test. Catholicism? Ha!
Islam? Ha! Anybody else want to make me laugh? Then there are the organized religions that think homosexuality is a sin ...
Written by Matthew Dominic Hunter @ 03:15 PM
Thursday, July 1, 2004
If I could be a pebble, or a wave
Daddy, look at the pretty purple pebbles
rolling in the endlessly revolving waves If I could be a pebble, or a wave, or
even you, Daddy, would I still know who I was? Would I still remember the little boy whose
body I am? Or are memories like passing clouds? But if I have no memories,
how do I know who I am? Daddy? Does the pebble remember the rough
rock it used to be ... and
where will it go when it's
rubbed all away?
Written by Matthew Dominic Hunter @ 04:12 AM
is this your boundary, or my imagination?
we stripped
halfway is this your boundary?
or my imagination? either way, this is excellent
for now
I touch your body relentlessly
later I will atone
Written by Matthew Dominic Hunter @ 04:03 AM
Bible-dipped flesh
Turkish jade, resting upon your left nipple,
I put my scissors away,
uninvited, I attack your estranged form, Sanctimonious, repressed, you dodge my
teeth, my raw hunger, my porous desire, I like you even less than before,
your bible-dipped flesh,
as uncomfortable as the slats
beneath our mattress.
Written by Matthew Dominic Hunter @ 04:01 AM
Attachment Paradox
We can become attached to the desire to remain unattached ... it is all the same thing ... People use their religions for various purposes. For some people, their religious identity becomes the foundation of their self-esteem, a self-esteem in which they are better than [better than they were before, better than you or me, etc.]. There is a flex-point along the Buddhist path that many adherents never reach, because they mistake the path for reality ... Buddhism is best used as a path out of illusion, rather than a path toward any particular destination. Once the illusions have been recognized, the need for the path falls away, and you simply see things as they are.
Written by Matthew Dominic Hunter @ 03:49 AM
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