The
UnGodly Dance of Good with Evil
All is One.
There is no
sufferer.
Step by step: (we
go)
1. You say you are
not satisfied?
2. That matters not.
3. There is nobody
here who is satisfied so look again into the question of Who Am I.
I recently found
myself to be satisfied believing it was my duty to clean up a pile of
shit so huge it seemed to me to be impossible to accomplish short of
great, unwanted suffering. It may sound crazy but it was my time to
learn what happens when one can see no alternative but to accept
utter defeat, alone. Searching ends suddenly. Ceasing the
search to find what one does not have reveals a still mind in a body
afloat on a lake of deep satisfaction. Presto! A new intelligence
arises. Tremendous energy with passion is available. Do not wait for
me to tell you what it means.
Ask: Whatever
caused me to think that what is difficult for me is
bad and wrong?
By that, I mean,
what caused me, as artist, to find it necessary to paint over the situation at
hand with the color named difficult. It is, after all, the
situation that is. I used to wonder whether it is possible for
someone like me to refuse to accept the idea that when trouble arises
I have to oppose it rather than merely to face it, deal with it, and
end it. That is, never to let trouble take root in my mind. That is,
to dump all bad memories and toss the color of difficulty away from
my palette. That is, never again to open a drawer in the brain
labeled memories of bad times, and be done with the practice of
good and evil; and, by so doing, to know that God and
Devil are one.
Many reading this
will recoil at the suggestion of forgetting evil on the belief it is
by remembering evil that we keep it at bay. Ha! Look at history. For
all such persons evil remains attached to every good idea that will
occur, generation after generation, unto the end of time. Consider
the scripture: For
the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, the very thing I
dreaded has happened to me, and
what
I fear most
overtakes me.
In that scripture it is possible for one to see his
own role in every conflict.
I want to suggest
here that it is my memory of evil that inevitably causes someone else
to feel abuse in an evil manner which he must never forget and so on
and on conflict will be passed until people find themselves in a
situation exactly like the one we face today on Earth in 2017. All
statesmen(women) and politicians speak thusly:
“Because we do
not have peace we must go to war even though war can never bring
peace.”
Peace
is not the opposite of war. War is a fool's search for peace. Peace
is the presence of itself in the union of good and evil. It comes to
all who want it passionately enough to clean up their own shit
without expecting a reward. It comes. It just comes like a promise
fulfilled.
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