The Power of Uncertainty                                                          Life is absolutely 100% uncertain!  And...

therein lies a certainty. The human mind cannot explain the cosmos so stop striving or depending on others to strive on your behalf in lab coats, libraries, and government and religious enclaves which believe they can eventually understand it while ignoring everything that makes a human being great. You will find you not only do not evaporate but you finally live free for the first time in a long time and know one thing: the persistent push to make the workings of the cosmos to be understood by us continues to make a horrible mess. How are you going to stop? Only when your own mind sees itself. How will that happen? Nobody knows. Get it?

                                            

 GATEWAY

What is meditation?

To be a light to oneself

is so very important.

To inspire oneself.

Find out for yourself.

For yourself find out how deeply interested in this you are. 

You are the world and a light unto it

there is no authority outside oneself.

There must be freedom to observe.

Take note of how many teachers or gurus want to form organizations 

even though there is no authority outside oneself.

There must be observation of the actual now not

observation from the past which form “My conclusions”

so that one sees what actually is without judgment or condemnation.

Just watch it.

Watch it flower and disappear, a beautiful thing.

This is being a light unto oneself.  One Self.

Cells of your body change. Contents of cells change.

You have found the Gateway between two worlds.

 LOVE HAS NO OPPOSITE

I now see we, humans, thought we were evolving by language, and in a sense we were, but in a sad direction of separation. We named everything. Horses do not do that. No other animal does that. By doing it, we separated everything for ourselves, not for anything else living. The others, the animals and plants that did not evolve a new language, were left out. By separating from, you make yourself the boss. You say, my horse. My cow. My dog or cat or goldfish. Your world changes in a big way. I do not have to tell anybody how that change effects a life. You know. We all still go through the change from the moment of birth. Additionally, we also changed toward each other as humans. Us and them began. Levels of a society were labeled and assigned. By power. Women were separated from men inside a world where every being has a mother by natural law. Every boy loves a mother unless he is deprived of it. By nature love comes. Love has no opposite. 

To undo the damage requires each individual to make a choice to do whatever is necessary to cut through the chains that bind. It is a great fight…the greatest. But the good news is it is a fight that, when won, ends fighting anything or anybody. 

I end this by saying the only excuse valid fior continuing the naming game is that it makes it easier to find answers to questions and that is a miserable excuse for paying such a devilish price for being right rather than happy. You see, every question answered by the shortcut happens to create more questions to be addressed and many of them will be critical. 

Alas. It will always be so that the  slow path becomes the fast way home. Love has no opposite.

A  LAZY MIND

 I heard it said, “Understanding makes the mind lazy.” I felt immediately free. From now on I want to avoid the use of the term “understand” and enjoy freedom. In a dimension of freedom from understanding or even the wish to understand may be the only intelligent place. From the outset, the word understand seems nonsensical. It would seem to encourage one to cease motion. It carries a sense that one sees something from a particular point of view and that seems unintelligent indeed! One suspects a claim to understanding has been preceded by making a judgment and taking an inflexible position about a matter that will  prevent motion and soon may become rote and lazy, preventing learning. 

Schools of thought teach one by a system of memorization and repetition. The goal is not that the student be wise or learned but that he conform to a certain way of thinking. 

One who understands me is someone whose company I wish to avoid. That includes me. So, this leads me to see that to truly understand is to question everything. This reminds me of the saying "one can never cross the same river twice”. Let me remain open.

 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.

 MORE ON SYSTEMS

Systems are by and large dumb and dishonest. This is another way to recognize that you are involved in a system. Here are a few examples. Chris Columbus was sailing West to get to the East, he thought. He named the residents he found when he struck what is now called America Indians because he thought he was in India. Later, when it was determined Columbus was greatly in error about his whereabouts, did the system he worked for correct the error? No. Until this day the aboriginal peoples in America are called Indians. Had they been called Americans, oh boy, it would have been far more difficult to justify completely displacing them. Correct? But since they are Indians, well, Hell, they are in the wrong place. Then, when black slavery was abolished it was thought, “Hell, send them back to Africa!” They too are in the wrong place. "This land is our land!" cried the immigrant. And it has long been taught that white children are superior to black children because they make much better grades on average in school. Schools they build! Duh? All traditions assembled under any system are contradictory and confusing, and especially so for children who are not yet dumbed down. They are taught to sit in an assigned seat for up to an hour at a time without talking to a neighbor or getting up and moving about. And they are taught to be friendly and to get plenty of exercise. And to stand up for their right to be free. They are taught not to ask a neighbor child for help on a test and taught it is divine to be helpful. They are taught sex is bad and that it is the most fun there ever was. They teach children to restrain and to assert. Teach them to dress alike and to be themselves and not to be vain. Children are trained to refrain from judgement and to judge everybody. Violence is condemned except for obligations to kill when it is required. One should respect and honor all people and yet despise your rivals in every contest and think and behave as if your school is better than their school, your country is better than theirs and your family is better. You are taught to love your parents even when you do not. And on and on and on. I even once read a sign nailed to the door of a church widely attended in Austin Texas that stated If you are hungry and in need of food or you need shelter please contact the appropriate governmental authorities as we do not provide such help. It is beginning to become  commonly recognized that to be free requires one to be free from conflicting ideals. When it is widely understood there will be no one to serve in a system of any kind. Systems will be obsolete and only free humans will there be. You may think this to be impossible. It will happen when enough take the trouble to find out for themselves a way far superior to any manmade system that works for everybody because it was set by the force that made the Universe and just as possible as life on Earth itself.

 On Or Off

The system is like a bunch of roads you ask permission to walk on.That is the key to finding out you are in the system. The system is enough to make anybody sick. All know it. No argument there. But when you get sick what do you do? You turn to the system that made you sick to fix you. The system breeds crooks. That can make anybody sick. But when the crook strikes what do you do? Turn to the system that made the crook to catch the crook and make things right. The system requires everybody to have a job who is able to work or to starve. But the system sets your pay and provides that you may be fired or laid off. When you are fired what do you do? You turn to the system that fired you to put you back to work for them hoping they won’t fire you this time. How many roads must a woman walk down before you call her a woman? By the way, the wealthiest members of the system are made sick by the system so nobody who walks those roads is exempt from its many troubles. The crooks the system creates are always at work each stealing from weaker thieves than themselves, We sometimes call the troubles arising from the system the Blues. We sing, “Blues stay away from me”.  And others. But what do we do when we get the blues? Right. What else? The system. The system makes its rules for anyone to oppose it. Try it long enough, fighting the system, and you will learn that fighting it is part of the system so even if you were to win your fight you are in the system and it will not change. Wars are part of the system. Economic collapses are a part of it, too. All are planned for by the system. 

A system can be likened to a wheel built by pride. Every baby, including you, started out in a state of complete humility. A part of no system, the babies ask no one for permission to be alive. Humility leads to gifts. Gifts lead to pride. Pride leads to a downfall. Downfalls lead back to humility. That is the wheel. Back at the beginning now. Question. Are you going to ride the wheel again? How many times? It takes no guru to realize that if I choose this time to remain in humility I can  receive gifts by simply staying there, in humility, and avoiding pride. Can I? Of course I can. Will I? Who knows? Would you rather ride the wheel some more?