I had a crazy dream

last night. We were in Kentucky, not Texas. Someone died. A family member. There was talk that we had been supposed to go to court and prove the deceased had owned a chicken at the time of death. Otherwise, he would be declared to be nonexistent and never had he actually been alive. Then he could have owned nothing and we better get that straight. We spent most of the dreamtime trying many comical ways to prove our relative owned a chicken the moment he died and every theory proved unprovable. There were real chickens in the dream that we ate while we were trying to prove our relative owned it at the time he died. Ha! How's that for a dream?   Believe it or not, though, the dream was funny as Hell and we had a lot of fun trying and failing and just deciding to laugh it off. I sure wish I had filmed my dream.....as I wrote you this little account of my dream I was smiling and seeing how profoundly true it happened to be...nobody can prove who it was was ever even here which is the best of all possible worlds and you and I got to live it out this way, just loving what we love and laughing off the rest of it. 

HOW TO LIVE 

The austere, plain, unadorned life 

harkens into space and time its benediction, 

the self-organizing man; while the life-adorned reveals its deceptive nature daily as a leaky vessel.

HOW I LIVE

Rank Stranger: A man I met in the mountains told me, “You speak well, Pilgrim, and you can write a fancy hand.  Trouble is, that won’t make much difference. Something else determines how everything goes and no man can speak its name. You hafta get to know its nature as soon as you are able and lean on it all the days of your life. If you want the good life promised.” I wanted it’s all.

JUST THAT 

It is done everywhere  by billions of human beings all around the Earth. It is a very big business. The biggest, actually, when you consider that those who are pretending to have such a thing to offer are hypnotists causing you to believe you must have it and that these people are set apart by common consent as having the unquestioned, God-given authority to administer its organizations which they alone are allowed to create. Consider the organized religions.  Consider all the governments of the world. Consider entertainment (books, films, videos, theater, music, etc.) Consider education. Consider the dissemination of news and propaganda. We know that the wool is being pulled over our eyes and by whom, but, do we know why we accept it?  Same question in different terms: why do we accept war as inevitable? Starvation as inevitable? Hatred as inevitable?  Violence as inevitable? All of these and more we accept as being human nature and, so, inevitable. Why? Do we not know better?

What is more ridiculous than the purchase of someone else’s words as a part of a scheme, however stimulating, designed to assist you in the promised realization of something you are so obviously not? And yet, what is more in demand today than is just that? Is everybody born anxious for a logo to wear? Of course not. Such must be instilled.

Any guru says:  If you follow my words you will become what I am. They know something about you.  You will always follow somebody.  Why not me? If not me, it will be somebody else. There is a lot of power in signing up followers. Last place you will ever look seriously is within and that self-betrayal is your nemesis. And that is where is hidden all you ever dreamed of and much, much more…sail to Byzantium*, looking with the desperation of one who knows he is tied to a dying animal, and before it is too late.

For which guru has said as a single message: 

“You have all you need and much more. That is all I will tell you. I am busy being just another ordinary wizard of contentment.”?

Only such a one as that is worthy of the name of guru and if called one, will deny it. All others are fakes.

Hint: Only an idiots fail to know nobody else has the code for them. And The Giant Guru you hope you will ultimately find never made a world in which a guru’s time is worthy even of a penny. Any guru who knows not that you are shockingly complete as you are so are never going to benefit from hanging out with such a dope as him, is a faker. 

Find another who makes no claim to know a way for you to follow. Find someone to whom you can never be obligated at all. Love, which cannot be invited nor can it be cultivated, comes naturally, easily. Avoid applauding the ones you love. It will some of the time make them sick. That silly substitute for loving them is empty and immature and dangerous. Be the love you find inside.

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* “Sailing To Byzantium”, by William Butler Yeats

Hello. My name is P K Sudox Bird

and I am a whooper swan. 

 I hear people think.  

One thinks, a person has broken a rule.  That person is bad.  Sound the alarm!  We must bring the culprit to justice and change his behavior immediately. Bring the accused before us to be dealt with for we are filled with righteous anger! 

Another thinks, They tell me a rule has been broken by one of us. Sound the alarm! Someone needs our help. We must amend our thinking immediately.  Another rule has gone amuck as they do each time we make one. We must remember that the only rule is that there are no rules so as to to conform our thinking to reality for truth is love and nothing outside it is true. No matter what we think. No matter what. No matter what.

…with a brain empty of suspicion and prejudgment which can see the whole picture  love will arise and join the dialogue between the two of you and, so, the presence of a miracle enters the matter. This is a fact. Simply make a move to another dimension. A brain empties in the face of a fact. Do you know such a simple fact?

Johnny Whooper Swan

Bad Kids: You hear that a kid has done something wrong.  He’s bad.  We need to do something.

One guy goes to the Kid and asks first, “Did you do that?  Are you guilty?  Why did you do that? Do you admit you were wrong? Are you willing to promise to change and do right? 

Another guy goes to the kid and asks , “Who are you, Son? Are you what I see? And his investigation goes as deep as possible on that score. Then, depending on what he has learned, he may probe into some other things like, What matters most to you? What has made you so angry?  Or, what is it you want, really? What do you need?  What holds you back, if anything?  How can I help you? If you could have your way what would that look like to you? Keeping always on the trail of similarities, not differences throughout the visit, this guy is certain the change needed, if any, is for the kid to know himself. His questioning  will come only with a brain empty of suspicion and prejudgment which can see the whole picture and then love will arise and join the dialogue between the two. Then the presence of a miracle is in the room. This is a fact.

The two are entirely different ways. We gotta move to another dimension and soon or perish. It’s that urgent already.  No time to lose.