NATURAL HUMAN BEINGS

When a natural man and a natural woman become so close that they mate and make a baby it has always, from the beginning right up to today, been unquestionably obvious to each parent that they are responsible for the care and upbringing of the child. Each one will walk through the fires of hell for that baby because the child is worth it. This is known in the cells of the their bodies like the need for water and sunshine and is wrapped in an invincible love. 

The above being so, as all agree, why would you say we have come so far from the Garden? Well, it just may have to do with a trick that separated us from each other on the inside breaking the natural bonds of compassion. Notice the term “natural man and natural woman”. From time to time it is shown what that means when a human being reaches out automatically without thought for his own safety to try to save a complete stranger. In those cases, the hero always says “ I had to do it.” 

Here is the point: in all aspects our societies hammer into us a slogan that “you are an individual and that means you are separate from everybody else and must be ambitious and competitive to make your way in the world”. They do not add “the world we made and we direct”. But, it is so. It is obviously so. Yet, it is also obvious that the word “individual” means “not divisible” which is the opposite of “separate” and “ambitious” and “competitive”. Would it interest you to know whether the world (another world) where the term “individual” was coined is still present and open to all free without exception? It is so. It is the natural world. Mother Nature’s dominion.

Notice for yourself how when a human is thinking he is separate from other humans that person, through insecurity, must assume a position of competition. Each such unnatural human watching from a separate point of view sees that nobody else is going to take care of and watch over me because they are separate from me. So, the games people play were invented so each can substitute compassion for the belief he will win. The ultimate game is he who dies with the most toys is the winner! 

Consider this-in such an unnatural world you are bound to strive all your life to do the “right “ thing only to discover at the end that it was all “wrong”. The biggest surprise of life is the discovery “All along I could have done anything fearlessly with no effort at all.”

 INDIVIDUALS       ALONE

Let me shed a light.

There are so many humans on Earth right now who have been mesmerized by the age of seven to believe themselves to be chickens by other chickens. If you get my drift. Here is going to be revealed the sad state of earthlings all over the planet. It is to be told by a former chicken who found grace to remove the spell.

Once there were two terms (symbols for who we are). These two were-

All one

Individual

The meaning was we are NOT SEPARATE. We are actually indivisible. Harmony was our natural condition. We sang and danced as a way of life and they were not used merely to distract us from pain and sorrow for there was none of either. All day every day we supported and cared for each other by every action and all our actions were that for there was no selfishness. Why? There was no division among us. We called it our Garden.

Today, the terms are alone and individual and now mean: completely separate from all others. That change makes no sense. We are each on our own, with no direction home, complete unknowns, like rolling stones. However, (get this) we are commanded by the authorities who came to rule us, because we are in disharmony and a danger to each other now, to work together on projects they (the rulers) choose in shifts each day which they designate to be a workday (most days) and we are ordered to work in programmed patterns taught us by trainers or go hungry. In old age, we are retired, on meager incomes, to wait around and die. It is so obvious that the term “Individual” means flatly INDIVISIBLE (all One ) so how did we get it turned around for all of us and why?

What has been revealed here today is that all your life will be spent doing what is right and every step of the way it will have all been wrong. How does it feel? Is it possible for every human to look honestly inside at how they are living now and end it? YES!

SECRET: It is not love which leads to the institution of marriage (a pattern made by rulers in a failed effort to control disharmony they created as the foundation of their illusory power) but a lack of love.

 REAL COURAGE

If anyone suggests to you in any manner whatsoever that should you choose to join with them in some organized effort and should you be accepted they promise to educate, train, coach, and otherwise prepare you to become a real somebody in the world summon up instantly the raw, real courage from the depths of your being to look them straight in the eye and and reject the offer with upmost dignity and respect and tell them flatly “if you do not see that I am somebody as I am you have nothing to teach me that would not be a waste of my time. I see through your mask and want you to know your plan to condition me for some small part of life you have corrupted so as to serve your ambitions for power through control and domination of others that you personally or your bosses own and control is not to my liking! I prefer to go my own way standing barefoot in the good mud of Earth trusting that which you see not to watch over me as I wander delighted in wonderland. Thank you and good day. ”

To all those who wear masks of membership in some exclusive group with  requirements for membership it appears that wanderers in an unknown land are trusting some craven false idol of their imagination too ignorant to realize the advantages we offer while the actuality is these courageous ones rely upon what abides in the heart closer than the veins in the neck and comes and goes a whole life long with each breath taken. There is no other so loyal, so true. It cannot get any more real.

The writer was from the outset a reluctant joiner. Only did he join what he was forced by law to sign up for. He attended a public school where his name was on the roll. He attended Sunday school up to age 12 but never joined to the dismay of many of his relatives who assured him he was bound for Hell for eternity. But those curses only strengthened his wish to walk alone when he considered how foolish would have been a decision on his part to shrink to a level to gain the approval of a group that would speak to a child in that manner. It is appalling that any human could so twist words up as to make that practice of clear abuse an act of love.  Crazy!

In time, the child grew up in a world that appeared to be completely dominated by countless “groups” competing among each other in violent tones. He searched in it for anyone who might not be hating somebody else but found no one and eventually was dragged down to the level of the mask wearer world. He hated, hated , hated, and finally hated himself. He saw that you get to be President by working hard to get the majority of the mask wearers to vote for you in a weird campaign of lies. It sickened him. He even saw the President murdered serving inside the mask wearing political world. It was years later before he could see how damning of the corrupt world he had become lost in that act was. The boy fought back, but against whom?  All he fought with were wearing many masks as well he discovered. They changed by night like Doctor Jekyll. No cause made any sense.

So, he pleaded within his heart to be helped. Help came. He met in rapid succession many who had been miserable like him who had found a way to live as humans inside an organization of humans that was and was to remain anonymous never to be organized! These ones had what the boy had lost…real courage. 

For many years now the writer has lived a magical life of wonder and fulfillment daily as simply and clearly attentive to each moment. As such, he has wandered the avenues and boulevards of cities blessing the neighborhoods where he walks by his presence. Now, I ask you. Who is more vital and worthy? Such a one as just described or the CEO, Chairman of the Board, majority stock holder and founder of the most wealthy company on the face of the Earth? It is hoped the answer to you, the reader, is clear. If not, that it be clear soon is the writers wish. Do you doubt, for a moment, that one who is devoted enough to be what he is in the face of “PROMOTERS” will go uncared-for by its maker?

 BUSY PEOPLE LOOKING FOR AWARDS

We are each somebody busy trying to be somebody else. The poets call it dreaming.Those who would be teachers call it a good idea. Institutions hope it will lead many to join their group. Walt Disney called it imagination. Bosses call it fresh meat. Wise ones call it being a fool. Life is lived by a poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard from no more…a tale told by an idiot…full of sound and fury…signifying nothing…and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. (some lines of wisdom about ambition drawn from Macbeth by W. Shakespeare)

You want to be somebody else because you want to be secure, admired, loved, accepted. Right? Being somebody else guarantees the one who wants those things will never know them. Any who know true love will be their own person. Get to know all you can about love.

Think about it. Listen. If one has got to be somebody else is it not obvious that one who is rejected by himself cannot possibly ever know love or be part of anything or belong anywhere? Life, in that case is totally wasted…lived by somebody else…and that somebody else is you mesmerizing itself. Find out who you really are.

The real you is consciously aware that he or she is the world and the world is he or she. That is the birth of true love and compassion. If I look into your eyes and recognize we are one that love is real and will not change according to time or culture or anything born of time and thought. It is altogether different from a love that arises from me (a product of culture) loving you ( only another cultural image). That love is the love of idiots. It’s a wonder they still can feed themselves. (last line borrowed from Bob Dylan song Idiot Wind) It is advised you listen carefully to a Dylan song Tombstone Blues now. I shall.

 I read this recently that at the level of skin man and woman are so different, at the level of muscle and bone we are both obviously humans and at the level of the heart we are one.

 WHO IS TO BLAME?

There ought not be wars between human beings. But there are wars. Many, in fact. Who is to blame for the wars? Hmm.

There are bands of people who all consider they belong to a named tribe or nation. Were there none of these there could be no wars. And, it is the leader of a band who declares a war. Were there none, no wars would happen. The war would be so long coming about due to argument and indecision that it would become a bore to even speak of it. And even if a king was mad enough to go to war he would look silly unless he had a huge, trained military at ready he could order to war. Or, at least he must have sufficient wealth to raise one and train and arm it or just sit and pout in his office and dream of having such might at his disposal. And it helps to have a band to play music to glorify battle. Oh, and there must be composers, uniforms, and band leaders. Also it is critical to have some method to get the message of the leader why the war is an absolute duty of the citizenry spread all over the land and build it to a crescendo in an outpouring demand that we march! It is a great help to have a religious body or two inside the band with holy priests to convince many of its people that God is on the side of the band about to go to war and will make sure of a victory.

We must not leave out that not only must the leader or king be wealthy but there must be a solid business community at ready to supply all the needs of war. And these must have plenty of laborers to make all the necessary goods of war, including things like food and bandages and medical equipment and drugs and body bags. And don’t forget plenty of alcohol and drugs and sex to help the soldiers forget what just happened. 

After the war, in case of victory, there has to be a well organized element of academic and artistic creations of all sorts to glorify the war and its fortuitous outcome and memorialize its fallen fighters. It must be made clear that all humanity is benefitted by the war and the outcome of it and that we would do it all again! Well, Hell, it’s beginning to look like it’s all of us!

War is a fact. “There are going to be times we need to go to war” is a concept. The fact is real and can be dealt with. A concept is not reality and, as such, cannot be dealt with. So, is it possible for humans to deal with the fact of war only? And end it?

Wait. I think I am a band of concepts and ideals separate from every other human. Humans go to war with each other even inside families and nations and religions.

If I ask a woman to go out with me on a date I am shopping. I am shopping for a relationship of my own making. When I shop I am confused and conflicted…this or that. A mind in conflict is a dangerous thing to rely upon. It will always lead to more conflict. As soon as I choose, no, a second before I choose even, the confused mind will say “that’s a mistake”. It cannot help it. It’s confused! The mind is arguing within itself. Clarity is hidden from me. In that state, whatever I do will be confused, so, more shopping. Eventually, another war!

I have a friend. Both of us see that the concept of marriage is not working. We feel strong attraction to one another. It is suggested by a confused mind that we marry and then, once married, we set about to make a relationship we can each be happy within. Sounds good. Must fail. Why? Do we understand yet? 

So, is it possible for two to first find clarity together and then let the purity of a clear mind that is not shopping lead? Clarity is a fact- a fact that I am beginning from where I am, as a fact, and not from some concept of where I am wanting to go. See the difference? The future is conceptual. Now, a fact. 

The way of committing to a conceptualized future and betting on being able to make it come about through effort of will is not working! I see something! Plasticity! Life already has it! No attaching to mental concepts because they are suppositions and always limited. Who needs ‘em? Come on!

 MUSIC FROM the HEART of a DRIFTER

Listening to Dylan’s songs sent to me on the internet lately I wonder..who among us all (humans) is not a Master of War? It may be The Times Are A-Changin’ to a point nobody can deny any longer…it’s me! A growing understanding wells up in my ear that insanity will only end when the human is convinced it is into myself as I am living daily I must search and not out there or up there or under there. I must begin where I am. I need more than anything to find out what changes when I change first…completely change. A change just happened inside and my action was immediate and different. At that place Bob sang wildly about on the radio of the sixties I am on my own, a complete unknown, a rolling stone with no direction (fixed) home, and surprise! there is a deep calm, a clarity, a quiet, still mind with an assurance previously so lacking. Jesus did not want me to feel guilty, the cross was about a willingness to finally die in the psyche to what is not in service to all humanity. Not to make me Christian, not at all, but to reveal in a mirror a whole human, a true lover of the indivisible kind. I see through forces of division in conditioned thinking that separates brother from sister and brothers and sisters from one another like I see through water that runs down my drain. Amen.

WHEN A WAY OF LIFE IS OVER

It seems we are at a time when the psychological view of total humanity is that we are living in a time of worldwide crisis. Many proclaimed it decades ago. And as time passed we all took up that theme. OUR WAY OF LIFE IS DONE FOR.

To me, that’s great news! There is really no reason to be offered why humans should not go. We destroyed our home. Suffering is everywhere. I live on that part of the Earth designated as The United States. There were people living here before 1492 when the white man came across the Atlantic from Europe. They say the red people at the time could not even see the ships coming it was so weird.

Real quickly the word was spoken in native camps that the whites are many and they want all our land and cannot tolerate our way of life. They will kill as many of us as necessary to end our way of life…our way of life is over. 

I have white skin and went to law school following a way of life taught me. Indians in America began early to tell the whites that one day the evil you are here to deal out to us will turn on you. That prophecy is now and a child could have spoken it from the beginning. But nobody among the whites asked the children. By the time I was 18, I could have told everybody “this is not working”. Instead, I held my tongue and went to war as part of the problem hoping it could be fixed from within. Problems do not fix themselves. It took me nearly two decades to be convinced of that. Once convinced, there came to be a completely creative way of living here outside the system of man available to me, of all people and, so, I have a simple yet powerful tool to speak about at this time.

One needs to examine carefully the exact way of life one is living to understand the self that is the source of suffering as humans. Once understood, it vanishes for it is but a bad dream. It is the essence of division among humans and loneliness is the absence of love. The word ”individual” originally meant “indivisible” or “not divisible”. Today it means to be completely divided from everybody and everything else. The good news is that self is put together by thought and love is not. This makes it possible for a human to be free of self, the essence of suffering, and to be filled with love. What this is no thoughts can say for it is not put together by thinking…but, it amounts to a completely different dimension of life right where we stand!

Many teachers who will arise will try to sell you on some way to change the corrupt system from within that system. They say “don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. I say here, now, remove the baby then throw out the dirty bath water! 

Listen carefully. Listen as if your life depends upon it. Ultimately, if it is done, the new dimension will spot a bit of consciousness free of the domination of self and will chase after and find you!

The Universe is not a store. It is a sacred house of wonder. Red men and women are still among us…more than you know. I leave for now with this. As a man without hope I realized my way of life was over. I was defeated. As much as any red man before me I knew the truth of seeing the end of my life as I knew it. Where to go from here was unknown, as in the famous song, I was on my on, a complete unknown, like a rolling stone- and as happy as a human can be. Since that day I have inhabited a new dimension of love and understanding. So, I have something very precious to express to everybody on Earth!

 Brief Introductory Remarks Of An Ordinary Human Being

Or

How Sharply Is Thy Razor?

Look into this. If I am to be truly useful to others it must flower from within me naturally and if it does so flower there is no reason for anyone to pay me for doing it. Or support my work. How sharply is thy razor? After all, I am doing what I love naturally. And will do it with no thought to be paid. And others will be served. So, what began the notion of work for pay? 

And, furthermore, can any accountant show the figures for how great is the loss to society to follow such a practice,,,work for pay…rather than naturally serving one another through compassion’s love? Of course not. Those figures are not kept for the reason that nobody pays money to free the world from money’s grip.

Accountants are so tired of their work they insist on being paid to do it. They are not alone. Is it not obvious we demand pay only when we do not want to do the work? How sharply is thy razor? Know what they call someone, especially a woman, who does work she would not do if the money were not offered? It goes even deeper than that by far. How sharply is thy razor? 

One cannot simultaneously act naturally and unnaturally. As in my story earlier, if a human being is doing work for any sort of selfish reward it means he or she is not doing what they are drawn naturally to do and there is no love. And there is so much pain in self-betrayal. Do the accountants & do-gooders have the figures for the cost in psychological and emotional terms to the human minds of a society practicing self betrayal for most of the adult years of each person’s  life? Who will calculate the weight of the huge burden of resentment, anger, remorse, envy, self-hatred, self-pity, worthlessness, loneliness, isolation suffered by such workers and all those closest to such workers, the families? NOBODY WILL CALCULATE IT! There’s no money to be made in compiling those devastating losses! Another thing. Does anyone know or care what wealth might have been created had all members of a society been acting purely by a human’s natural, inborn compassion for others? 

Laws are made to benefit a small minority of the population. A law that will benefit all would be completely unnecessary, would it not?  Think about it. So, laws will always lead immediately to conflict between citizens. Must. Think about it. There is a joke that an atheist dies and is standing before the Pearly Gates where he is met by God. The atheist says, “Sir, please give me just one tiny sign that you actually exist and I will know”. Think about it. The certainty that laws made by man divide people is that strong. Love is what we need.

I heard a native Navajo story where a boy failed to chop any wood one day as he as supposed to do and the family was caught with an approaching winter storm where several would possibly freeze to death. The boy was chastised by his mother. The boy simply had been occupied with thoughts from a book of how he could be better off than he is so was out of touch with that in him naturally responsible for the welfare others. He ran to chop wood and saved the family. We too often do not even consider what good we miss when we suffer a society that preaches and insists upon unnatural selfishness above natural compassion. So, we stand ignorant of the fact that such a world is corrupt at its core. There is a price for such grave ignorance.

Here is a great secret to consider: to live outside the law one must be honest. In truth, as Shakespeare wrote it, when one is true to himself he cannot be false to anybody else. So, decide now to do for your work what you love and do it for nothing. Work like a beaver!

We say we dropped the atomic bombs on our enemy in WWII because we needed to end that war and save American lives yet do we have any concept how many factors that led to the war in the first place stemmed directly from ignorance of our own human nature? Why not? We are blind because our culture has insisted for too long on inattention to natural wisdom.

A final word. I was raised by my family to study the life of Jesus Christ. After years of living I understand what it was all about, finally. Jesus was seen by a few as a special human and was asked to show the way to the rest. What was special about him was that he was simply and fundamentally natural. It has been so throughout the story of societies that many who had found a way out were urged to teach another what cannot and need not be taught. To undertake to carry that load for another is a hard rain. Any human born in the midst of madness must find the way out alone. Why? The way out is “stay put”. You gotta dodge all the unnatural games crazy people play. One of the last is the game of “won’t you please show us how we make sense out of  this chaos?”

We all suffer the same here…rich, poor, powerful, weak, pretty, ugly brilliant, talented, or not. We all feel an enormous lack. Whenever that is seen clearly by anyone, all comparison and measurement ceases automatically. That is what death will cause us to do everyone. Each one born dies. It is a perfect fact. And that is the great vitality in death. Take stock. How sharply is thy razor? Can one die early to live? Death is the surrendering of fear. Is resurrection possible for all living people now one at a time? The change by one will affect the whole. How sharply is thy razor?

 One might say “I need enlightenment”. Another says “I need salvation”. Another says “I need to awaken”. And so on and on. Some will say only, “ I need a peace I cannot name or describe”. Another has said it this way, “I need to find my heart”. All are after the same thing AND IT IS FLATLY “ORDINARY” AS ORDINARY CAN BE. 

Our brains, and therefore our minds, are loaded with stuff of past experiences. Memories, ideas, feelings, notions, theories of all kinds are in there. Religious dogma and political hogwash are in there. Imagined attachments are there. What is felt as a need by everyone of us humans is a call from inside to notice there is something besides all that “stuff” present that is not a part of it. It is like if a violinist has 400 violins in his music room and it is so full of them he cannot see he is there also. He is awaiting the violins to play something new to him. They cannot. He cannot move forward. He is like a walking dead man. He must think life is just this way and strive to accept that.

And this is why no one can charge a fee to make things right. There is nothing to it. Things are right. So many offer an extraordinary “experience” for a fee and make a lot of money doing it when it is a “non-experience” we began with and believe we lost. To find what is not lost…what is to be done? Well it really is so that what you are looking for is an enormous elephant in a crowded room right under your nose. It wants no name , has no possessions, and is alive. It is life. Remember? What more can be said?

 Doctor Scientist listen to my question please.

How many years will it take searching with the tools of your technology into the secrets of the human cell before reaching the notion you have found out all about us? Hell, even if 500,000,000 of you are searching day and night how long? Would it not be a lifetime well spent to open your heart to a mere possibility of a dance with a mermaid?

 People want God to forgive our sins.

God is either love or God is a sin-hater.

Which God? 

If a body really thought God will forgive me

that one’s soul would never know sin. Lack of love is the source of sin.

What is the relationship of God to self?

Self is an image put together by thoughts.

Love is not such.

What is sin from the point of view of love? That is the relationship.

 Separation of RELIGION

A Christian is to believe Jesus Christ, Son of God, died for his or her sins and His Father thereby forgives all sins of the Christian who so believes and such a believer will not perish but have life everlasting. 

The Bible presents Jesus to a reader as a holy man who is pure love…for all. The story is of a shepherd who loves each lamb so much he will leave all his flock behind to search for the lost lamb. As a child I was taught the story and even taught the story to other children. It is not surprising that a person becomes a lost lamb. First, right after birth, came a set of patterns I am to follow in life. These patterns soon become the facts of our situation. Trying to follow them brings conflict and confusion and, finally, desperation. When it happens to one of us we are ready to hear the story. A lost lamb in a human body wants more than anything to be found by someone who loves him or her. That feeling is like no other. 

This writer need go no further into the matter. It is enough to understand the attraction to any of the religions organized by man. I feel lost. A group with a name and symbols and a headquarters offers to help me. Enlisting in an organized religion, in some manner I am led to give my life over to an image I make in my thoughts of what it is like to be a complete human. One more loveless pattern. 

This writer writes only to question whatever led to the “organization”in the first place of what is so universal. It has unquestionably separated humans rather than uniting us. Created conflict where none is called for. In fact, to make a separate religion amounts to an attempt to make a separate “life”. That is so arrogant! 

The term religion comes from the same word as relationship. Life is relationship and how we respond to it. I am the living. You are the living. They are the living. All the same. Period. Actually, Jesus became famous for saying “love your enemies”. Now, perhaps, is the time to embrace such wisdom.

The method described in paragraph one above means when any child of God dies to its selfish life as it is being lived in separation that one act of pure love opens the human to an unknown selfless way of life where that one and any who follow suit will not perish but have life everlasting at the instant of such a psychic “death”, which means life never dies since death is always followed by a new beginning. What else is it than “life everlasting”? At the very famous Last Supper of the Christian religion Jesus told his disciples he was leaving the “master-disciple ” role, so goodbye. He asked to be remembered and then promised he would come again, right away, and did and continues to be born all around this Globe every day. Salvation complete. All organized methods fulfilled in the ending of conflict. This important understanding is real, based in fact not belief, unorganized, and unites all humanity.

                                                                                 LIFE & 

THE TERRIBLE WORLD

The world of persons as far as I can see is a terrible place to try and live. So much violence. So many people hateful and angry. So much cruelty.  Enormous greed and disrespect for what is beautiful and tender. Comparison and measurement in all corners. People buying and selling others. Corruption rules on Earth. Beginning with the family of separation.

I cannot change the world. Have not the power to do that. I want to but cannot. I also cannot even keep my family and close friends knowing they are safe. I was early taught I was to do that much if I am to have any dignity as a man. I found it very hard to admit that it is not possible for me to keep such a promise to them because I am not Superman or anything close to it. I tried many ways to escape that fact. But it eventually got to me. I lost my mind. 

Then something happened to me. I admitted my weakness and sense of shame and asked for help with my suffering. Some people told me they recognized me as one of them and agreed to show me a way out of the sickness. Said it was unlearning mostly.  What I have to say now is that there is a way. I found out my trouble was not really “mine”-really, it is that I am not who I thought I was before. Like in the story of Alice, a caterpillar asked me-

“Who are you?”

I attempted to answer and each answer was shown to be absolutely false. I arrived at a place where I just admitted, “I don’t know who I am.”

When a person is clear he has no identity his mind has to open up to the complete unknown. It loses its entire load of bullshit that was attached to the wrong ideas he had about the most fundamental truth- existence! Believe it or not it is a wonderful place to fall into. Empty mind, that is. Suddenly everything is possible!  It became my quest to question it all! Ha!

As I continued on the “questioning everything” journey to meet up with identity more and more gifts came to me I had not even asked to have as if they fell from trees or something. One thing for sure, empty mind has great energy. I tell the following and stop. 

Eventually, it came to me as a fact that my problem is the other man’s problem and the problem of all human consciousness and therein lies the source of suffering. We were driving each other mad in a House of Mirrors. Amness is life’s energy in a human body. That energy cannot be destroyed by anything. Nothing can reach it. It is in another dimension entirely. It transcends problems. 

My body is mortal and will die and can be hurt but not so for the truth of my identity. And it turned out to be what was left when I had established by serious questioning who I am not! With this knowledge was it realized in gratitude there is safety in a dangerous world. It is in me and cannot be messed with by anything.

This that is revealed here is not the property of any person or any group of persons. “Persons” are the great problem. To walk the safe road is not a choice and will not be found by shoppers. Lovers have it. A lover goes to any length for the beloved because that is what a lover does.