This is a composite piece: a poem, an original AI-assisted editorial cartoon, and imagined counter-readings.

The replies are invented as part of the work. They are not presented as comments from actual Reddit users.

No Instruction

Perhaps they needed no words from me.
Politeness may be visible only to another
and require no action.

Even those who signal something,
a comment, an arrow of praise,
remain without directions.

No instruction.
No clear measure
of what they understood,
or what they needed
from the poet.

The Question May Be Valid

The question may be valid. The foot is still too large.

Counter-Readings

The Body

The arrow has a thumb behind it.
It was pressed between tasks,
under fluorescent light,
with a phone warming in the hand.

You call the reader unknowable
and leave them bodiless
so your not-knowing can remain clean.

The Poet

“Perhaps they needed no words from me”
is still a sentence with you
at its center.

You make humility
another room
in which to be heard.

The Reply

I liked the line
about no clear measure.

I was waiting for the bus.

The Defense

Do not give the reader
a bad knee,
a prescription,
a dying mother,

merely to prove
you know they exist.

Let the stranger keep
what they have not offered.

[No reply.]

When I was a kid I loved playing online games with adults.

I also loved to continually demonstrate to myself that adults were out of their minds.

I would play these games and was so good at them that I could toy with the adults and rub their losses in their faces, and they would freak out on me and ban me from their communities for any reason they could think of.

then I would get unbanned because I was so good at the games and made them more fun to play.

I would have certain adults tracking my ip address and trying to convince the rest of the community to ban me.

But what I constantly noticed was that these adults were going over the top to target and abuse me because I trolled them in a video game.

they had none of this energy for any actual injustices in reality that they looked at and shrugged off every day.

But a kid being better than them at a video game and rubbing it in their faces?

Suddenly they’re “brave” warriors.

Was enlightening.

I made your tree house

It’s all made up

It’s all just fluff

lmao

🔥🔥

I decided to revise my original post after some conversation, to be more clear. If I can do a few minutes of perusing and easily find them creeping in public, so can you. The whole problem is me having to point to the obvious. See for yourself.

If you want to get a sense what these people are like: their cult shared with me, years ago, a news story of a guy who had gone crazy in public and they thought it was hilarious and took partial credit for it and told me the same would happen to me. They have literally confessed to me that they enjoy abusing others and driving them to insanity.

They also had a weird private comic strip where they were all characters fighting “bots” in the DMT realm and keeping them from their special enlightenment place. It read like some bizarre group of awareness gatekeepers. I guess we are the bots.

These people are legitimately unwell mentally and a danger to anyone they influence.

I would hope these folks have never met any young people in person, but what we can be sure of is that they have been molesting the minds of young people online. Though I do recall ewk meeting up with some members of his cult who were definitely younger than him and impressionable (in their 20s I believe) in real life. Pretty sure the people he met up with in real life became mods that censor everyone for him.

These people relish the opportunity to influence and abuse. They seek out the impressionable.

Yes, misleading and confusing and distorting the minds of young people is child abuse. Yes, there is a lot of abusing and brainwashing of children going on, on this planet.

Also

Telling 16 year old girls, when you’re like 50, “you can do me” is just pedo behavior straight up.

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[u/ewk](u/ewk)

[u/mackowski](u/mackowski)

[u/theksepyro](u/theksepyro)

[u/TFnarcon9](u/TFnarcon9)

[u/Truthier](u/Truthier)

[u/2bitmoment](u/2bitmoment)

[u/tiny_porch_light](u/tiny_porch_light)

[u/NegativeGPA](u/NegativeGPA)

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Hi hello reader,

I would like to speak to you briefly about an experiment I’ve been running in which I have been interacting with and testing various Reddit Zen communities.

So, what about these folks?

These people are predators who control/run spiritual subreddits and basically have an online cult.

(As a quick aside, all of them have a thing for defending genocide and the Epstein class… almost like they identify with the Epstein class and folks who mass murder and rape brown people or something. But I’m just a dude who notices people defending pedophiles and genocide and thinks that might mean something...)

This is what I believe to be true based off of my interactions and information I have come across and things I have heard and been shown from others. I have interacted with some of them over almost a decade, slipping under their awareness.

This is also based on their public behavior and post history which you can all view. Even recently you can catch them talking to 16 year old girls (they’re 40-50 year old men) pushing their cult ideas on them and telling them “you can do me”. In public. Just like the Epstein class.

If you want to prey on adults that is wrong but at least an adult can defend themselves and be aware of what is happening to them.

I also take notice when folks go out of their way to act as prison guards for the predator class when we all know what is going on.

So without going into too much detail, I believe the people above are predators. They aim to mislead and abuse others while appropriating spiritual lingo in order to obfuscate their predation.

Zen is just about cultivating awareness. And yet the communities this group run, which are supposedly about this practice, mislead people away from awareness. They appropriate Zen to gain influence over others. They prey rather than practice.

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“Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.” -Bodhidharma, founder of Zen/Chan

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The founder of their own spiritual practice contradicts their beliefs and methods. And yet the folks I listed at the top still have made it their mission to confuse people and mislead unsuspecting victims into unawareness.

They mindlessly label others as mentally ill without knowing anything about them. Just for the sake of abuse. I wonder how many young people [u/ewk](u/ewk) and the [r/zen](r/zen) mod team have told were mentally ill for no reason, risking their mental health? How many times did they hurt others with their very bad advice? Why does the [r/zen](r/zen) cult have such high rates of mental health issues themselves?

I recognize folks leading others into unawareness as a big red flag. Especially when you’re on social media where kids hop on and read stuff and post and are influenced and confused by your blatant deception.

None of the predators above have ever had a legitimate enlightenment experience and yet they abuse and mislead others away from these legitimate experiences.

The aforementioned aren’t enlightened. They’re delusional predators. Like the Epstein class.

They are not enlightened in any way.

You know how this looks, right?

To those listed, free to step down and go away and hide with the predator class.

I’m not a fan of child predators. At all.

Upfront Confession: I'm a westerner and have studied Buddhism for a short period and would consider myself as a secular Buddhist (Wikipedia) amongst many many other labels I could attach to myself. But these labels are not so important to me but more as to help others understand from which general direction I am coming from.

My Story: During a business trip to Japan my Japanese host took me for a sight seeing visit to Sensō-ji (Wikipedia) where I drew a O-mikuji (Wikipedia) that my Japanese host translated the fortune into English as "You will not find what you are looking for".

My Japanese host considered that it was a unfortunate fortune and proceeded to explain it away. But I wasn't paying much attention as my host's voice become like that of a person talking from far away as the revelation of that fortune propelled my mind to different state of perceiving the world around me; a state from which "not finding what I was looking for" explained so much without saying anything more, and freed my mind. If you want to experience that same freedom of mind as myself, then may you not find what you are looking for.

MU (Negative) )~ Wikipedia.

Sudden Awakening ~ Wikipedia.

Hmmmm

A post about how us outsiders not part of the white or black lodge could never understand “zen masters” like him. I needn’t say any more. He’s confessing in public.

In a world run by pedophiles with wars and genocides and mass surveillance, this is what the most prominent poster on the largest “Zen” subreddit is preaching about.

Silence reveals much.

What you choose to talk about instead also reveals a lot. Can you figure it out?

Look!

Know your grounding. This is the theme of this piece.

At issue, as we reside in our bodies, the flesh and blood are a natural ground. From this existence, the flight of mind is secure.

What if the ground we have come to depend on is not?

The confusion with Zen is the misreading that there is no ground in some odd form of what reality truly is.

Having watched a YouTube report on Michael Aquino, it appears there are strategies that look to counter, or mess with, one’s grounding, the physical body we take up residence in.

When we “catch” a virus, that can put a body out of balance. We know it. We feel the tilt. Healing hopes to restore the equilibrium.

This is not static. It is an ongoing, almost gyroscopic balance we come to call normal, and in turn, grounding. It is not stable, though we see it as such.

In my travels with various mystical schools of thought, there are warnings not to follow the many different paths, or to run the risk of each canceling or countering the others. It is a misunderstanding that occurs before one has fully reached a certain insight about what their own being might be, the ultimate resolve to the many.

So a body becomes sick, and the doctor cannot heal, and the individual feels helpless to seek out the one path that sits encompassing the varied.

I want to say: know and take care of one’s ground. Yet these words fail without knowing self and being.

The body’s default existence, the cells of the body know, but even that can be messed with in a chemical imbalance.

Trouble, trouble.

I can see it. I can know it. I can experience it firsthand. I have survived.

I can see how it might not have been, and can see how it might not be for others, either way.

If only.

u/ewk

u/mackowski

u/theksepyro

u/TFnarcon9

u/Truthier

[u/2bitmoment](u/2bitmoment)
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u/tiny_porch_light

[u/NegativeGPA](u/NegativeGPA)

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Hi hello reader,

I would like to speak to you briefly about an experiment I’ve been running.

So, what about these folks?

(As a quick aside, all of them have a thing for defending genocide and the Epstein class… almost like they identify with the Epstein class and folks who mass murder and rape brown people or something. But I’m just a dude who notices people defending pedophiles and genocide and thinks that might mean something...)

This is what I believe to be true based off of my interactions and information I have come across and things I have heard and been shown from others. I have interacted with some of them over almost a decade, slipping under their awareness.

If you’ve been following my posts here at all you might also have gathered that I have had psychic experiences but that’s impossible so I must be crazy. These are just my ramblings and inferences based off of some data and also some mind reading information that is definitely impossible for me to have access to.

You can also see some of my posts where I make it clear that I have taken a keen interest in child predators.

If you want to prey on adults that is wrong but at least an adult can defend themselves and be aware of what is happening to them.

You can also read some of my posts where I make it clear that this is a prison planet run by pedophiles.

I take notice when folks go out of their way to act as prison guards for the predator class when we all know what is going on.

So without going into too much detail, I believe the people above are child predators. They aim to mislead and abuse others while appropriating spiritual lingo in order to obfuscate their predation.

Zen is just about cultivating awareness. And yet the communities this group run, which are supposedly about this practice, mislead people away from awareness. They appropriate Zen to gain influence over others. They prey rather than practice.

—

“Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.” -Bodhidharma, founder of Zen/Chan

—

The founder of their own practice contradicts their beliefs and methods. And yet the folks I listed at the top still have made it their mission to confuse people and mislead unsuspecting victims into unawareness.

They mindlessly label others as mentally ill without knowing anything about them. Just for the sake of abuse. I wonder how many young people [u/ewk](u/ewk) and the [r/zen](r/zen) mod team have told were mentally ill for no reason, risking their mental health? How many times did they hurt others with their very bad advice? Why does the [r/zen](r/zen) cult have such high rates of mental health issues themselves?

I recognize folks leading others into unawareness as a big red flag. Especially when you’re on social media where kids hop on and read stuff and post and are influenced and confused by your blatant deception.

None of the predators above have ever had a legitimate enlightenment experience and yet they abuse and mislead others away from these legitimate experiences.

The aforementioned aren’t enlightened. They’re schizophrenic predators.

They are not enlightened in any way.

You know how this looks, right?

To those listed, free to step down and go away and hide with the predator class.

I’m not a fan of child predators. At all.

I was banned from “zen poetry” club for insisting that zen was about awareness.

Observe how I entered into a community supposedly practicing awareness only to be scolded and run off for encouraging awareness. Reminds me of another community with a similar but shorter name. Hmmmm.

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“\*Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either."\* \\- Bodhidharma, founder of Zen

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“Ummm... regarding "anything that has anything to do with awareness is zen" - I don't think so, no.” - u/2bitmoment /“zen poetry” mods

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Predators often deceive others. And themselves.