Donald Traxler's Poetry

Monday, September 21, 2020

Upanishad XXVII - This Body Is a Fiction / यह शरीर एक कल्पना है

This body is a fiction and an illusion.

It is made of protons, electrons,

and empty space.

It contains energy and can be

converted back to energy,

but it is not solid.

Nagna says:

It is nothing, really.

Only Consciousness

is real.

यह शरीर एक कल्पना और भ्रम है।

यह प्रोटॉन और इलेक्ट्रॉनों से बना होता है

और खाली जगह।

इसमें ऊर्जा होती है और हो सकती है

वापस ऊर्जा में परिवर्तित,

लेकिन यह ठोस नहीं है।

नग्न कहते हैं:

यह वास्तव में कुछ भी नहीं है।

केवल चेतना

सत्य है।

Upanishad XXVI - We Love the Illusion So Much / हमें भ्रम बहुत पसंद है

We love the illusion so much

that we feed it,

we exercise it,

and trim its pubic hair.

Nagna says:

But there is only Consciousness.

हमें भ्रम बहुत पसंद है

हम इसे खिलाते हैं,

हम इसे व्यायाम देते हैं

और हम इसके जघन बालों को काटते हैं।

नग्न कहते हैं:

लेकिन केवल चेतना है।

Sunday, September 20, 2020

Upanishad XXV - Today's Work / आज का काम

Today's work will be

from another world,

for another world,

and for this one.

It will be in a distant language,

from a distant time

and for this time,

and all times.

It will be from me

in all those other times,

to me in this time,

and therefore

to you.

Nagna says:

We are One.

आज का काम होगा

दूसरी दुनिया से,

दूसरी दुनिया के लिए,

और इसके लिए।

यह दूर की भाषा में होगा,

दूर के समय से

और इस समय के लिए,

और हर समय।

यह मुझसे होगा

उन सभी अन्य समयों में,

इस समय में मेरे लिए,

और इसीलिए

आप को।

नग्न कहते हैं:

हम एक हैं।

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Welcome to My Office

Welcome to my office.

It is here that I work

from dawn to dusk

and beyond.

It is here that I chase

the subjects, the lines,

the rhythms that I want.

It is here that I follow

that something more,

that forever knocks

on my door.

Upanishad XXIV - As the Illusion Wanes / जैसा कि माया घटती है

As the illusion wanes,

the Real gains

in power and efficacy.

Nagna says:

A shift of focus is needed.

जैसा कि माया घटती है,

असली बढ़ता है

शक्ति और प्रभावकारिता में।

नग्न कहते हैं:

फोकस की एक शिफ्ट की जरूरत है।

Friday, September 18, 2020

GTh Logion 29 and Nagnopanishad XXII - Consciousness = Spirit

It is a curious fact that in the whole Bible (including both Old and New Testaments), the word "consciousness" is never used. But the word "spirit" is used hundreds of times.

Yet Consciousness is the basis, the ground, of all being. Where "Spirit" is written, we could substitute "God/Goddess," "The All," "All That Is," or whatever we like. We can make such substitutions because ruach/pneuma = spirit = consciousness.

In Nagnopanishad XXII (published in this blog on Sept. 15 2020) we read that "Consciousness does not depend on the body; the body depends on Consciousness."

In Gospel of Thomas (GTh) Logion 29, we read "Jesus said: If the flesh has come into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit has come into existence because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels. But I wonder at how this great wealth has made its home in this poverty."

We are multidimensional beings. That is one of the secrets of life. Consciousness is also multidimensional. We live on planes/levels/worlds that have been called "Astral," "Ethereal," etc., and by other names in other cultures. We live on these planes simultaneously, When the body eventually dies, because that is what bodies do, the other planes of consciousness, which do not depend on the body, persist. But there is then a missing plane, the physical plane, and it must be replaced. It will be replaced, with another body. The set will then be complete once again.

The Gospel of Thomas begins thus: "These are the secret words which the Living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas wrote. (1) And he said: Whoever finds the explanation of these words will not taste death." Logion 1 is literally true. Bodies come and go (Nagnopanishad XXIII), but "we" (multidimensional beings) don't die.

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Journal of a Naked Poet XXV - You Want Names?

You want names? I'll give you names.

Eileen Hanes Traxler, Donald Clyde Traxler, Charles Foltz, Frank and Marjorie Maciejewski, St. Rose of Lima, Central School, Nora "Nano" Dunne Hanes, Hamilton School, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, St. Francis of Assissi, St. Augustine, Dan Opincar, Mr. Weber, Adamski, Glenn Miller, Tchaikovski, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, The Platters, Elvis, Fr. Smith, Jim Lorentz, George "Jerry" Martinson, Bob Padberg, Mike Milligan, Dave Johnson, Jimmy Green, Alejandro Borja, Pat Rusconi, José Alfredo Jiménez, Gabriela Mistral, St. Teresa of Ávila, Dr. Theodore "Ted" Bardacke, Joe Labonville, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, L. L. Zamenhof, Angela Merino, Alberta Galli, Cheryl Crofts, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Baal Shem Tov, Juliette Savary, Kirsten Landsverk, Sri Aurobindo, Ramakrishna, Mereta Saltrup, Dani Touarin, Mitch Tyler, Ilse "Elsa" Johanna Operschall, Jane Campbell Flood, Don Flood, Sara "Sally" McCune, Jack Hirsh, Marianne Seaver, P. Deborah Lorentz, Orion Culver, Ramana Maharishi, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Shlomo Carlebach, John (Lubavitcher) Blank, Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Herman Hesse, Gandhi,Yeshua ben Yoseph, Moses de León, Federico García Lorca, Paul Twitchell, Adi Shankara, Lalla (Lalleshvari, Lal Ded) of Kashmir, Gerald Gardner, Pablo Neruda, Henri Bergson, William Buehler Seabrook, Persis Kirmse, Maria de Naglowska, Michael Sullivan, Marina Abramovic, Karen Finley, Yakov Leib HaKohain (L. G. Corey).

Relatives, friends, influences, objects of research, indiscriminately. Many have been left out. It's enough to make your head spin.