Immaculate Conception

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The East concluded that the point of Mind

Is not Socratic pathways’ patterns, but

Instead their opposite.  The point is blind

Acceptance of a fogginess, not strut

Of logic.  Logic leads to shallow stuff,

Not sea real meaning — but unmeaning thought.

Such rationality is not enough.

Truth’s sovereign sword goes slicing through the knot

Of tangled lack of Wisdom.  Truth is like

A prophet made of dreams and secret sense.

The Truth is more a mystic colored spike.

The Truth is far too large for facts — immense.

  The East believes that shallowness is brain.

    The East believes that Truth floats, lacking stain.

~ Phillip Whidden