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having nothing to do in the evening there is none in the morning as the mind
flits lightly like dappled sunlight on a forest floor. Eventually the ‘I’
will reassert in up-front consciousness but, while absent, there is
subjectless contentment ie ‘I’ am content because there is no ‘I’ to be
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Last night I thought to wake with the dawn and did. It is now but
slightly light. No traffic, and bird song just beginning. But a concern for
the work programme is emerging – "What will I do today?". The ‘I’
solidifies. Social routines are recapturing consciousness with ‘duties’ and
‘responsibilities’ which devour spare time. |
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Spare Time? The devil finds work for idle hands to do! This culture
is fiercely material and mundane. Minds are shackled to a work ethic. First
in the home and community with ‘hard-working’ role models and then through
long years of habituation to the forty minute bells of school. What chance
does a poor soul have? |
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angst,
anomie,
alienation,
disaffection from the polity
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Every chance! The system is laughably corrupt. It strangles itself.
It breeds dis-ease, forces the search for solace and then provides media
distractions and mind bending chemicals. But these shallow joys wear quickly
thin. And then? Despair! And then? Breakdown and suicide versus renunciation
and rebirth! |
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Rebirth?
A change of mind. You are what you think. Think different.
It is never too late to change your mind.
It may not be easy to break old
habits of thought but it is not impossible where there is a will.
And Will
is ever-present. |
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Will is the fabric of the true Self. The sun shines behind the clouds of
ego illusion. Blow the clouds away. The 9 to 5 routine is dust on the
mirror. Blow the dust away. |
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| Beneath the thin veneer of the culturally conditioned self
lies the true Self which moves the air and makes the grass grow. The dynamic
Oneness flows like self motivated putty.
Endless rounds of creation and destruction.
Permanent impermanence.
Waves on the ocean of cosmic mind.
That art thou. |
From
Hinduism –Tat Tvam Asi – ‘the Absolute is in essence one with
yourself’
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Be still and know
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