The Four Ignoble Untruths : Dogma, Unreality, Suffering, Bondage
Channel: owais sarvasukhsevaka
Date: 2013-08-08

I wrote this poem, a few days back...   as a homage to an ancient Indian 'scientist', philosopher and 'greatness-puller'...   by the name Siddhattha, of the Gotama clan.

This poem has just been published on my blog...   http://owaisvasundhara.blogspot.in/2013/08/poem-four-ignoble-untruths.html  ...I copy/paste the text for your convenience below.  This poem is being published in video format first here.

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The Four Ignoble Untruths:
Dogma, Unreality, Suffering, Bondage

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Why must I 
oppose dogma, 
religious, 
or secular?

Primarily, because 
it opposes truth.

Does it?
How?

Merely, 
by considering itself 
inviolable.  
Irrespective, of whether 
the evidence 
-- our only 
arbiter of truth-content -- 
supports it, 
or opposes it.
Or, currently, 
is unavailable.
Dogma, 
must always pretend 
to stand tall.

And why 
is truth important?

Because, 
it represents reality.
And unless 
we are rooted 
in reality, 
we suffer.

For reality, 
happens anyway.
Irrespective of whether 
we, and our dogma 
want it to happen, 
or not.

And if, 
we realize that 
we can work towards 
correctives, 
or palliatives.
Before-hand, 
or after-the-fact.

Dogma, 
rejecting evidence, 
disempowering us, 
leads us to untruth, 
unreality, 
suffering.

Suffering, 
like most 
Terrorism, War, Violence 
Racism, Jingoism, Fascism, Nazism, Anti-Semitism 
Misogyny, Homophobia 
and even, the Ecological Imperative.

How can I not
oppose dogma: 
the promoter, 
numero uno, 
of untruth, 
of the unreal?
The root 
of most human suffering?

I may still 
desire the unreal: 
like I may want 
my dead mother back, 
my lost youth regifted, 
love from all 
those that I loved, 
who never loved me back.  
At least, not in a measure 
I found acceptable.

There is no harm 
in desiring all that.  
So long as I know 
it is all my desire, 
not reality.  For then, 
the absence does not 
morph into suffering.

If Hitler had known 
that Aryans are no master-race, 
but on the contrary 
his mere belief; 
and if his followers had known 
or believed that -- 
we wouldn't quite have needed 
the word, 'holocaust'.

If Christians had believed 
that God is a mere figment 
of their imagination, 
they would have yet 
respected the Earth, and not converted 
to the new religion 
of freemarketism, with its clergy 
of noble-ordained economists 
who, with their dogma of interminable growth 
have brought us past 
the point-of-no-return 
to the Ecological Imperative.

And if this realization had visited 
the minions of Muhammad, 
they may have bestowed, some 
peace upon us.

Religious, or secular, 
how can I not 
oppose dogma?

And how can I not 
demand the freedom of expression 
to uncover the evils of dogma, 
the only real devil, 
for that freedom is of nothing 
but to pursue the truth, 
the reality, 
the end to most
human suffering?

How can I accept the bondage 
that takes me 
and my humen 
to suffering, unreality, dogma?

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