TEBOHO PIETERSEN

  You can search his name   A thousand will come up  None of them will be him  He is etched Sketched  Immortal Yet you won’t find him anywhere  On any social media  No traces, no footprint left behind  No pain, no sorrow He was my friend  Smiles all around  Energy  Loud  Brash  Showing off  Maybe you’ll say I’m crazy  No such person existed  I won’t blame you  He left no trace, no footprints  Etched sketched immortalised  Engraved deep in my spirit  He was my buddy  Maybe you’ll say I’m a madman Maybe I am  Maybe you’ll say I’m creative  An artist  On the fringe of society  You’ll say I’m funny  A comedian, Trevor Noah  How can such a person just vanish  We don’t believe you  I assure you he was real  He was loud and brash  He had too much to say  He was a tortoise, soft in a tough shell  He was pure in a corrupt world ...

  When there is love you don’t need all the bells and whistles. The smoke and mirrors.   All you need is love and that’s a fact  It is because there is no love that the world is what it is Where there is love there is no need for a career, you can have a career but it is not a need When there is love there is no need for all the riches. You can have riches but when there is love they are not a need  It is because there is no love that the world is what it is today  Confusion, aggression, conflict  Where there is love there is attention, there is discipline, there is compassion  Where there is love there is peace, there is order  It is because there is no love is the reason the world is what it  Competitive, shallow, desperate  Where there is love there is kindness, patience, familiarity  It is where there is no love that you have wars, governments, courts  If there was love there wouldn’t be all this  If there was love in ...

  We are interested in life before death not life after death   Like those life insurance people who want me to pay so they can give money after I die. Ok?   Life after death is an oxymoron. Death is the end of life. If there is life after death there was never a death. So there is just life not after death.  Is there anything after I die?  When you die, you die, it means the end. There will be no you, no question, no ambition, no greed, it will be dead. Unless it’s not dead?  What would you like there to be? Peace? Freedom? Love? All that? why don’t you attain that here in this moment? If you are    that now then the question is over  When you have peace and love you have no desire for peace/ love. When you have that now then you no longer have a question of the after life. It is because you have conflict that is why you desire for peace / love in the future.  Figure out what is life before death that’s far more of importance. Are ...

  I want to have serious conversations and if you are a boyfriend, girlfriend, friend, family that would limit us. So you are nothing to me.   You ask why I say that, having a friend or family is limited already. I see everyone as themself, as me, as one and so for example the person called my mother, that’s the person who birthed me has met people who traditionally were called my friends because I didn’t have those groups. My perspective is not fragmented in that arena, so they are not different groups they are just all the people. While you may choose to see divisions in social relations these divisions are conflict. Since you view living as conflict that is fine but a spiritual living is one that ends conflict.  So if I am serious I do not have groups separated by ideas in my head rather the fact is we are people, there is nothing beyond the fact that one of those people birthed me and the other I met on a bus. All of them there is a level of intimacy, not because of a...

When we love each other we do not need to set boundaries. Love overcomes the need for boundaries. It is when there is no love that boundaries exist.  If you love each other naturally you won’t hurt each other. However when there is contempt for each other we will hurt each other and then we will set boundaries.  Boundaries are not a natural part of our relationships. They are like borders, they are created because we have been hurt. They are created out of fear. When you become aware that someone can hurt you, you have to create a border / a boundary so that they do not hurt you.  Living in boundaries is limited. Rather live in love. We force ourselves into relationships that require boundaries as we have come to understand relationship as synonymous with conflict. We thrive from the ups and downs of relationships and thus we need boundaries from the very people that we say we love. Is it not possible to live without hurting each other?  Do you want to be in love or ...