ÿþ<TITLE>Futurist Poetry-Poems On The World Of The Future</TITLE>. <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Futurism: Poems about future-science, culture, politics, spirituality."> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Paul Dolinsky"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="poem, poetry, future, futurism, terrorism, 9-11, futuristic, culture, living, life, spirituality, history, politics, current events, genetics, genetic engineering, cloning, philosophy, work, suffering, metaphysics, epistemology, dialectics, dialectical method, ethics. "> </HEAD> <BODY> </BODY> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman,Times"> <blockquote> <BODY> <CENTER> <P><font size="7"> </font><font face="Times New Roman,Times" size="6" color="#3333FF">W</font><FONT FACE="Times New Roman,Times"><FONT SIZE=6 COLOR="#3333FF">orldoftheFuture.org</FONT></CENTER> </p> <font size=1><font color=gold><p align=justify> <blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><font size=+1><font color=black> <p align=justify> <font size=1><i>updated 2-25-11</font> <p><font color=red>Special note from the author</i></font>: For about 10 years now, I have made my <i>Collected Poems on Buddhist Themes</i> available at no charge, through Buddhistpoems.com. I've decided now, to both reach out to a wider audience, and to earn money by making the book available through online vendors. <P> Print and eBook editions of this work are available on my <a href="http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?fSearchData[author]=Paul+Dolinsky&fSearchData[lang_code]=all&fSort=salesRankEver_asc&showingSubPanels=advancedSearchPanel_title_creator">author page</a>&nbsp; where they may also be <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/collected-poems-on-buddhist-themes/14704855?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2">previewed</a> .&nbsp; As the book becomes available through other on-line vendors as Amazon.com, I will let you know. </p> <p align=justify>At the same time, I don't want anyone who wishes to read the book to feel excluded from buying it, because they can't afford it. I tried to price the eBook low enough, so that people could easily afford it. But, if you have no way to make online purchases, or if you still can't afford the eBook (regardless of the country in which you reside) please email me. I will glady send a copy of the eBook to you. As always, I welcome your responses, and look forward to hearing from you. Paul Dolinsky, pdolan@fairpoint.net</font> </p> <font color=red><center>* * * </center></font> <FONT face="Lucida Sans" fontborder=black color="black"> <table bgcolor="green" border="1" bordercolor="yellow" cellspacing="4" style="text-align: center" align="left"> <tr> <td><font color="black"><b><font size="2">Study Philosophy Online</font></b><font size="2"><center> <p><b><i>customized courses</i></b></p> <p><b><i>private tutorials </i></b></p> </font><font size="+1"> <p><font size="1"><i><b>&nbsp;</b></i></font><i><b>based on your interests&nbsp; </b></i></p> </font> <p><b><i><a href="http://www.historyofphilosophy.org"> HistoryofPhilosophy.org</a></i></b><i><b><br> &nbsp;</b></i></p> </center></font></td> </tr> </table> </font></font> <P> <P>&nbsp;<P><FONT SIZE=+1><font color=black>Here you will find selections from some of my futuristic poems that relate to life in the future, which is always closer than we think. I will change the poem, from time to time. The featured poem is <i>Cloning Space and Time. </I><FONT SIZE=+1>It appears below, right after my essay on terrorism, which, unfortunately, is part of our world of the present, and increasingly, the world of the future. For your convenience, the updating of the site is noted in the upper left portion of the screen. <!----<P><FONT SIZE=+1>If you love Philosophy, as I do, or have always throught of exploring it more, please visit my <U>History of Philosophy.org</u> site through the above link, and explore the options. These include a free (currently free) <u>Philosophy Study Guide</U> based on a current novel, <u>Red Mountain - Birmingham, 1965</u> by Charles Entrekin, my book of <u>Poems on Western Philosophy</u>, or the ability for you to take <u>Philosophy courses </U> with me, or <U>private tutorials</u> with me. <p>Please consider <a href="http://www.questia.com/?qfe=poetpaul">Questia</a> for all your research needs. This is an online library,with electronic copies of books and articles on many topics. You subscribe to it, like Rhapsody, for music. You sign up for Questia for a period of time and can read online, to your heart's content, and take online notes too. <p>Questia assists people in doing research papers. It has the full text from over 70,000 books and 2 million articles. You could do word search on strings of words, or phrases too, through their whole data base. <p>Questia has 24x7 access, and makes research faster and easier with paper-writing editing tools such as highlighters . The Citation and Bibliography Creation tool will automatically create a bibliography with all your quotes and citations from any book you access, as a reference for your paper. <p>Anyone could search for free, and often see p. 1 of the item. <p>By clicking the link below, you'll let them know that I, as your "Questia friend," poetpaul, referred you : <nbsp: nbsp;><a href="http://www.questia.com/?qfe=poetpaul">Questia</a> .---> <center>***</center> <P> I hope that you enjoy the poems, and essay, below, and I welcome your feedback.</FONT> <P><FONT SIZE=+1>Paul Dolinsky, Ph.D</FONT><BR><FONT SIZE=+1><A HREF="mailto: pdolan@fairpoint.net">pdolan@fairpoint.net</A></FONT> <blockquote> <HR WIDTH="100%"> <p> <i>Terrorism is now part of early 21st American life. I&#39;ve also written this piece, which I invite you to read:</i><br> <br> THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9-11: A BUDDHIST APPROACH <br> <br> <font size=+1>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We're coming up to the anniversary of 9-11 -- the destruction of the World Trade Center and the other terrorist attacks. Approaching this from Buddhist and Taoist perspectives is very important, I believe, and instructive to people in general. It's all too easy for one to get caught up in hatred and throughts of revenge, and returning hatred with hatred. </font> <p> <font size=+1>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If one would walk a Buddhist path to Ground Zero it would be with mindfulness and compassion. There would be mindfulness that all things rise and fall, joys and sorrow alike; there would be gratitude for the lives of those who died, and the joys they brought to others. And there would be compassion, for those who died and the widening circles of family, friends, acquaintances, other New Yorkers, and other citizens of this country, and of the world, who were affected by their deaths. And how could one not have compassion for the terrorists themselves who suffered at their own hands-- who blinded themselves to all but their deeds, and its preparations, who moved freely in host countries -- open societies-- among people who trusted them, leaving destruction and deceit in their wake? As the terrorists literally consumed themselves with their own hatreds, they created new waves of suffering in their wake. <P> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It's too easy to return hatred with hatred, particularly as war preparation seem to be growing here, for an American attack on Iraq. We should consider and learn from the Tibetans, so brutally killed, as their country was ravaged by mainland China. There was no Tibetan Liberation Army. With Buddhism permeating native religions, the Tibetan people and the clergy did not return hatred for hatred, blow for blow. They understood that they would be creating spirals of suffering for other living beings, even for those beings who were their killers and destroyers of their country's very life. Instead, the Dalai Lama and many other Tibetans left their country to spread the Buddhist dharma to the West, in a peaceful manner. <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The US is a world power, and clearly has a different place in world history than Tibet. But if Buddhist truths are universal, they apply to all people of all nations. These truths are that we should understand karma -- how actions begets action. Therefore, we should always try to act wisely, and with compassion toward all humans and other sentient beings, with the interests of the many in our hearts and minds, and not the interests of the few. The rise of Islamic extremism and of Al-Qaida could certainly be examined in this context. And so too, should the nationalism and imperalist policies of the world powers likewise be examined. <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To kill another living being dispassionately, and not filled with hatred, is in some way is preferable to killing when one filled with rage. This may be the way of a Taoist or Zen warrior, or even of a hired killer. But such a path, I believe, does not lead one up the mountain of discriminating wisdom and compassion toward all living beings, nor does it necessarily lead to the destruction of bad karma. History goes on its way, with its spirals and seeming detours, and evil is often engaged and defeated at great cost for the sake of a greater good -- one thinks of Lincoln, the abolition of slavery and the killing of millions in the Civil War, and also of the war by the Allies against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers. The American led invasion of Afghanistan post 9-11 to search for bin-Laden, destroy Al-Qaida bases, and remove the Taliban from state power could also be viewed in this context of a just war. <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't believe that Buddhism is necessarily pacifistic. But there are degrees of attachment and non-attachment, even to life, and degrees of strength in one's resolve to not add to injurious karma. For nations to pursue wars -- whether aggressive or defensive wars, or just or unjust -- involves tremendous suffering for all concerned. Instead of war, or guerrilla war, the Tibetan people as a collective, chose the path of peaceful, non-violent protest. To choose peace, and not war, to turn the other cheek and be willing do die rather than fight and inflict pain and new cycles of violence for the sake of peace, are certainly not actions that most people could do. But we could try to capture something of the Buddhist spirit of non-violence of the Tibetan people in our own lives -- being aware of hatred as it arises in the mind, watching these thoughts and feelings rise and fall, as do all of our thoughts and feelings; being non-attached to things and events as we could have them be; being attached to selflessness, to doing good, to not perpetuating destructive karma, and to acting compassionately and with reverence toward all living beings. <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; May we approach the anniversary of 9-11 with these things in mind. <p> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; May all beings be happy, peaceful and free from suffering. <P> <HR WIDTH="100%"> <p> <P> from <i>Collected Poems on Buddhist Themes</i> (see promo at the top of this home page) <!---<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman,Times"><A HREF="worldof-cloningspaceandtime.html">Cloning Space and Time</A></FONT>---> <p> <center>CLONING SPACE AND TIME</center> <br> <center> 1.</center> <br>Events and memories come and go, <br> Will they ever meet again? <br>Seekers search in vain, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; under old trains, <br>In circuits of the brain, <br>In circuses of the mind. <br>Are there records <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; under old wrecking balls, <br>With new news in old glues? <br> <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; (psst: from the moment of birth <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; each thing cries, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and starts to die.) <br><br> <center> 2.</center> <br>What if scientists move consciousness <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; through new bodies, <br> Or clone the old <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; to make them grow into the new. <br>Things will groan, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; stay for a while, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; then grow stale. <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <br>Will death rest <br> If old minds take new bodies, <br> Or play tag with space and time <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; in new multi-dimensional rhyme, <br>Or unravel ancient mysteries, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; and rewrite histories? <br>The universe has played this game, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; placing consciousness in new bodies. <br>For reincarnation is an old invention. <br> Life may feel like detox or detention, <br> Before there is retention <br> Of our aliases, our alibis, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; our ailments, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; that seem to nail us, (wailing us !) <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; and walled us in, inside and out. <br> <br>But desirelessness <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; must be learned <br> As insight and self-forgiveness <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; is earned, <br>Least successes spoil us, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; and detachment take a recess. <br> We are bound <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; till we are by Spirit found, <br>Who simply says, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; "What is is what seems as in a dream." <br>We are lost and found, <br>But only if we find ourselves, <br>By keeping vigils with our rhymes, <br>By playing glass bead games <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; neither gladly nor gamely, <br>But not at all. <br> For we play <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; too seriously <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; or deliriously, <br> Ever peering into the universe, <br> Or preening before it <br>In euphoria, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; holding the latest formula. <br> <center>3.</center> <br>Better to make old repasts <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; into new composts, <br>And old composts <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; into new crops. <br>Better to make, break <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; and forsake records <br>Than to get stuck on them, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; as time is stuck on us all. <br>Memories, children of time, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; live in our minds, <br>And in the light outside <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; our window blinds. <br><br> If we do not care to wear <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; this fabric <br> Of wash and wear, warp and weave, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; weave and leave, <br>Then this other fabric <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; will we wear, <br> Of fabric <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; ation worn <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; through millennia, <br>Made soft and irresistibly reversible, <br>On one side, the label reads <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; "All is vanity!" <br>On the other side, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; "Vanity is all." <br> We choose a vanity, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; and in it, dress most nattily. <br> We sun ourselves <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; in our stunning looks, <br> But touch each other <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; with hands like hooks. <br><br> (psst: In reality <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; there is no vanity, <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; there is no hell. <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; All is well.) </p> <!----<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman,Times"><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/searingsun/worldof-earthchangingsomerearranging.html">Earth Changing, Some Rearranging</A></FONT> <BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman,Times"><A HREF="worldof-newformsemerge.html">New Forms Emerge, as Continents Are Submerged</A></FONT> ---> <BR> <P> <HR WIDTH="100%"> I also invite you to visit some of my other sites: <p> <A href="http://www.poemsfortoday.com">Poemsfortoday</a>, <a href="http://www.buddhistpoems.com">Buddhistpoems</a>, <a href="http://www.historyofphilosophy.org">Historyofphilosophy</a> and <A href="http://www.technopoems.com">TechnoPoems</a>, <FONT color=#3333ff> <br> Please send emails to Paul Dolinsky at <a href="mailto:pdolan@fairpoint.net">pdolan@fairpoint.net</A></FONT> <!------OLD GEOCITIES <BR><B><FONT FACE="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><FONT SIZE=-1><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/searingsun/worldofthefuturehome.html">Home</A> </FONT></FONT></B> <B><FONT FACE="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><FONT SIZE=-1> I </FONT></FONT></B> <FONT FACE="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><FONT SIZE=-1><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/searingsun/poemcontents.html">Buddhistpoems.com</A><B> I <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/searingsun/poemsfortodayhome.html">Poemsfortoday.com</A></B></FONT></FONT> <BR><B><FONT FACE="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><FONT SIZE=-1> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/searingsun/philosophypoemshome.html">Philosophypoems.com </A> I <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/searingsun/technopoemshome.html">Technopoems.com</A></FONT></FONT></B> <BR> <P>---> <HR WIDTH="100%"> &nbsp;</font><P> <FONT face="Lucida Sans" fontborder=black color="black"> <table bgcolor="green" border="1" bordercolor="yellow" cellspacing="4" style="text-align: center" align="left"> <tr> <td><font color="black"><b><font size="+1">Study Philosophy Online</font></b><font size="2"><center> <p><b><i>customized courses</i></b></p> <p><b><i>private tutorials </i></b></p> </font><font size="+1"> <p><font size="1"><i><b>&nbsp;</b></i></font><i><b>based on your interests&nbsp; 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