WHO WERE THEY? WHO KNEW THEM BEST?

When someone transitions or moves on in any other way, and especially if they touched many lives, there are a myriad remembrances.

Who knew them best? Did everyone know them differently? Are there some elements that are all the same? Does it depend on the role or relationship? Or how long, how many years the association was? Or the stage of life in which oneself or they were during the relationship? Can the person be truly described in terms of one’s experiences with them? Or their work? Or their character and qualities?

Yes to all… if it is the image, the person/ality we are talking about. What we know of a person/ality, is the image the mind projects, individually and collectively. (And since mind and time are the same thing, what we know of them depends on time, and all its other ramifications.)

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THE MYTH* OF PHYSICAL SPREAD

First, any sharing/offer contextual to the current pandemic does not imply that I’m refusing to comply with the present guidelines and mandates in all their unequivocal strictness. As one does as a respectful house guest, I’m happy, able and willing to follow the rules of the house exactly as laid out. Not because I necessarily believe in them, but just because. Just to be amenable and cooperative, as it doesn’t matter to me either way. Besides, in this case, I have been following (most of) the presently mandated protocol anyway, for more than a decade. In fact, this writing arises from a period of social (+media) distancing, which will promptly resume.

Now, on to the piece of writing.

For all of us who believe in space-time and materialist laws, the study of data around physical spread and contagion is interesting. Sure. I’ve seen a few sophisticated ones thanks to beloved ones sharing them with me, with particular note to the much circulated one published by Tomas Pueyo. (Though, it’s not clear to me how he ends up using a mortality rate of 1% instead of any other number between the 1-6% that was the obtained range from China/Asia, or the 2-3% used in other models, and it makes a significant difference. With mortality rate being inversely proportional to the number of actual but unreported cases estimated backwards, his selecting the lower mortality rate projects a far, far larger number of actual cases floating around in the WA area. Even the most sophisticated thought process and beautifully presented data *can* end up being torturing data to tell any story!)

When the belief in space-time ceases, however, one realizes that in the moment a ‘virus’ shows up anywhere, it is simultaneously and instantaneously present everywhere. Like a thought arising in One consciousness. If something arises in the Ocean, it is instantly in all the ocean, regardless of where in the Ocean the manifestation is first/most apparent. An apparent you or me being this wave or that wave, is still the Ocean alone.

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THE UNCONSCIOUS DEATH BIAS

In refusing to realize who we truly are and continuing the belief in limited and mortal identities, the mind is plagued with what can be called an unconscious death bias.

Everything done then, from “living life fully” to “being safe and responsible” to “leaving behind a legacy” to “preserving the traditions” to “fighting for this or that” to “loving fiercely” (to “respecting the masters” or abiding by “the law of karma”) is being done from the unconscious death bias. From this bias, (apparent) physical death itself is pre-programmed in “our” consciousness like a thermostat setting, and we never discover that the mind is powerful enough to align with whatever “cause” or “disease” or “event” to then manifest/actualize this death. 

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The fallacy of “self improvement”

In self-improvement, the self that needs improvement is trying to do the improving! How can me outwit me? How can me one-up me? How can me know what should be bettered in me, let alone in “the world”?

The reason me isn’t better is precisely because me wants to be better 🙂 (And also doesn’t want to be better, for it would be the death of me.)

When me gets out of the way, then Nature (Self/Love/Being) simply dawns, reveals, unfolds… manifests. There’s the realization that anything “great” that “me” appears to do, is a spontaneous happening, in universal order.

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Awakening: when the dream refuses to get better

Although there is constant reference to freedom from suffering related to Awakening (or Self Realization or Enlightenment), the goal of not suffering, or to feel or function better, or “get happy” is never what Awakening is about. If there’s a value proposition, you can be sure it’s not about Awakening 😊 Rather, everything else that is popularly valued and engaged in is about either distracting or training the mind to feel and function better, while Awakening is simply seeing what is, seeing what’s absolutely eternally true. It’s Reality realizing itSelf (through/as what appears to be “you”).

Actually, it is by completely surrendering, allowing and embracing the suffering and pain, that Awakening, and subsequently, total Realization, spontaneously dawned (upon “me”). And in so allowing, I saw how generating narratives and telling the hi/story — with an agenda to change the world or “never let it happen again” or get relief or comfort or be heard or be seen or be healed — is one of the most entrenched ways in which we avoid and reject and rationalize the suffering and disallow its total embrace and dissolution. (Telling the story without a charge or agenda but for the sake of storytelling alone, allowing anyone to receive from it what they will, is different… and is simply part of authentic expression.)

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As Kali… I am!

As Kali
I appear
as the ugliest of all
brandishing the shiny blade
foisting the death dance
bloodthirsty for your head
the ego
the mind that believes
in kal
in time
and in a time-bound reality
of birth and death
the identity you
with its reason and its will
and a lifetime (or two)

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