Nisargadatta Maharaj, Going Beyond Postmodernism's Insanity, Poem for the Earth Warriors.

Warm spiritual greetings, 

1. As the great jnana yoga master Nisargadatta Maharaj said in Mumbai, India, "Remember the instruction: whatever you come across, go beyond." 

2. 40 years after taking responsibility as a global citizen on the earth plane, participating in countless radical environmental and peace & justice campaigns, 23 years of selfless service with groups such as Catholic Worker, Food Not Bombs, and Food for Life, plus creatively writing articles, poetry, plays, and hundreds of published letters, plus being an editor myself involved in publishing, while all the while cultivating a legitimate spiritual life, I have reached a nadir.

The present situation in New Orleans is almost impossible, in terms of establishing the "Neutral Ground Community Center".  Also, I am being disrespected by the liberals in Washington D.C., who are apparently too stupid to appreciate what I've already done there since June of 1991, and they do not want me there because I reflect reality (as opposed to their fantasies of radical social change, which are bullshit).

So, I am going to take the ferry boat ride across the Mississippi River  this morning, and spend the day wandering aimlessly in the French Quarter. 

Beyond that, I have no idea where I am going to go, or what I am going to do.

 I am consciously ending this absurd portion of my life's journey in postmodern America, and going on to a future which is not ridiculously beneath my level of intelligence. Even the liberals in Washington D.C. appreciate this!

3. For now, I share with you a poem that was graciously published on the Warrior Poets webpage.  May you, like myself, never give up.

3.
Poem for the Earth Warriors

by Craig Louis Stehr
Rejoice in the dark phase of Kali Yuga

Nonattachment both to elusive peace

And discomfort in the face of chaos

Liberates the worrying mind

From earth plane’s crazy dramatics

Delusion’s nets release the dolphins

Ensnared in the cold grey seas

To roam free and ride the currents

From season to season beneath the stars

Navigating by moonlight to hidden realms

Only to emerge with new messages

Listen to the songs of the whales

The electric eel brings a warning

Undersea volcanoes echo the instructions

From the center of the earth which is

The real beating heart at its core

Deep within and silent

Witnessing the movement

Of the universal play

Millions and millions of miles

Of vast space stretch out

One beam of light to infinity

Bends and curves to return

To its origin completing the journey

Everything lives in a circular motion

Always returning like giant waves

That form and crash loudly and go back

Shifting sand beds underneath

And rocking the coral reefs

The great white shark is unmoved

It stays above its shadow relaxed and calm

Knowing what’s up and it has known

For a very long time

The reckoning of climate change approaches

Temperatures irregular and sea levels varying

Storms alter fish migrations and the

Undersea plants and deep sea life

All the way down to the ocean floor

In flux in the murkiness with soundings

Rumbling from below bottom dwellers

Emissions escape from fissures and trembling

Are the code of transmissions sent up to the surface

To land dwellers and the myriad species

Trees, plants, mountains, rivers, streams

Frigid air currents and warm clouds

The truth always comes back full circle

We are receiving our instructions all the time.

Craig Louis Stehr

23.XI.’12

Craig Louis Stehr

c/o Jamie Loughner

333 Socrates Street

New Orleans, LA 70114

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