Hello, Darkness

What the world calls darkness might be light. What does it mean? If I make claims such as “everybody has preferences” and know only that I have them what good am I? Such teachers need to address the meaning of “preference” deeply and then ask whether anyone has need of one. It matters not that I have one if I have no need of it. Certainly everybody who follows thought as a way of life will manufacture preferences but does that amount to “it is not possible to act without thinking first”? This brings us to a place to ask: what is the nature of action not preceded by thought? If there is any such thing. In other words, what is the quality of that produced by a still mind? “Hello, Darkness, my old Friend.” Suppose for a moment that rather than thought preceding happiness it is the other way round? Happiness trumps  thought every time. What is the meaning of, ”It came to me.” In team sports it is said, “Let the game come to you.” Every time we learn a new thing we find we have stopped thinking about it. So, did we already know it? I told myself for years that I had to suffer the agony of thinking  and trying to figure a thing out in order to…deserve to know it? There is the smell of guilt all over it. It is a cousin to do not ask for help, that is cheating. And that is evil in my book. 

Let life come to you. For it is always going to be so that if I cannot be happy where I am I cannot be happy anywhere.