Discriminating Wisdom

There’s a sword in the hand of the Buddha,

The sword of Manjushri discriminates

Between Compassion and idiot-compassion.

There in the Land of Mahamudra

Where discriminating wisdom doesn’t hesitate

But cuts decisively conscious, free of passion.

Appeasement of ego and aggression holds no sway,

The responsibility of right action demands discrimination –

A foul word and pariah to Gutmensch and mainstream.

"We don’t want to discriminate!" one’s trained to say,

The conflict-avoiding love-and-lighters eschew any tension;

To discriminate between facts and taqiyya arouses their screams

To "shut up and fly straight" into the Abyss –

Never against the stream, the intolerance in their "tolerance,"

Multi-culti proving in the end but a gray mono-culti.

To differentiate between truth and fantasy, or peace and cowardice

Is the way of satyagraha – you take the chance

Of failing to communicate the wisdom in urgency

Of awakened action – not opinion or theory but seeing clearly –

The sword Christ said “I bring” is to cut through this sleep:

For the cult of compulsive conformity ushers in "The-Religion-Of-Peace."

The death of our cultural tapestry in the form of homogenized "diversity"

Heralding an end to think and to question – just keep

In mind while you still have one, the comfort of ignorance comes with a price.

Right.

(on Wanta Jampinjinpa of the Walpiri Community)

I briefly heard an Aborigine,

watched his face and felt his timbre,

how he softly told of moving and acting,

thinking and feeling with the earth of

this world, the surroundings...

And invariably every second phrase or sentence

he would end in all but a whisper with, "... right."

Mild, sovereign, humble – but reflective, not self-conscious,

rather like an afterthought, matter-of-fact.

As he spoke before the camera,

punctuating his simple and generations-rich

statement with that barely audible "... right,"

he was doing more than talking, he was giving Teaching.

He could have been Native American,

Native this, Native that, but he's Australian,

Native of there – and whether they all do this

or just he does this, what came across

were all those thousands of generations

of living in close Wisdom with the Earth and her creatures,

all the Knowledge and Heart and Being, in that "... right."

And all that he wanted was, for us to finally get it … right.