buddha-in-a-metaverse
I met Buddha in metaverse
Floating through Altspace
His radiating Immersive Avatar
Pixel smiles exchanged between us
Across the virtual bar.
Small talk is tough in any realm.
‘weird without legs, isn’t it ?’
I ask, overwhelmed.
Bemused, he replies
‘Just like before.
Who uses feet to travel?
No great mystery that
Mind can’t unravel.’
I wonder if he is selling an app
To preach Guided Meditation.
Why not?
Man wants to be seen
And heard
And acknowledged.
Fantasies of better self
Is an age-old quest of being.
Why else have we built
This abomination
To endlessly search
Answers
To our frailties and compulsions.
Our real moral lives still,
lie in our embodied soul.
In the flesh and bone
with what we are left
when we take off our headsets.