Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, not Saint Inland Taipan Aquinas

“People all over the world try to know what they do not know, instead of trying to know what they already know.” ~ Sôshi (translated by R. H. Blyth)

When true simplicity is won, we know

The truths we need to know.  The simple gifts

Are honesty and love.  Shekinah glow

Is not required.  The rashes and the rifts

Of doctrines are diseases.  They cause quakes

That separate the continents of love.

Those doctrines are the fruit-like hanging snakes

That tempt us into sin.  They hang above

All Eves and Adams in their naked youth.

The slyness of the serpents with their tongues

In forks misleads us from the simple truth.

Snakes knock us from truth’s ladder and its rungs.

  Just know yourself in honesty.  The rest

    Is blet in fruit from priests at best.

~ Phillip Whidden