May 30-A, 2023

We know more than we know we know, 
and we don't want to know it
because it would get in our way--
it would get in our way
of having our way.

All we want is to have our way NOW!!!

Knowing what we know puts an end to that.

Knowing what we know
means knowing what we ought to want.

That is not what we want.

What we ought to want
is not even what we ought to want,
not what other people think we ought to want
which is what they want us to want.

Everybody wants us to want 
what they want us to want.

And we want what we want,
but not what we ought to want
us to want.

Wanting the right things--
not what the culture deems to be right,
but what is truly right for us
in the here/now of our living.

In any situation--
in each situation as it arises--
there is what is right for us
and there is what is wrong for us.
Which have nothing to do with morality/ethics.
And which have everything to do with
what our heart wants,
and what the situation calls for,
and what is truly best for us long term
(And, hence, short term, too).

And we know what that is,
or have the potential to know that,
but, we don't want to know it,
resist knowing it,
refuse to know it,
deny knowing it,
and will have nothing to do with it.

And, here we are.

Nothing happens toward the good
that is truly good for us
until we open ourselves to knowing
what we know,
and doing what needs to be done
about it.

Our refusal to do that
is the source of all the noise
in our life.

Noise, complexity, drama, trauma
constitute "the heaving waves
of the wine dark sea,"
and prevent us from
the emptiness, stillness, silence, solitude
necessary for knowing what we know.

All those Vision Quests and Sweat Lodges
are about opening ourselves
to the stillness and silence
emptiness and solitude
which are the doorway
to knowing what we know,
to realizing what's what
and what needs to be done about it
which is the heart and soul of enlightenment.

We aren't enlightened until we know that.
And do it.

But.
We had rather talk about it
than do it--
than know it and do it.

And, here we are. 

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