June 09, 2023 – A

The craziest people I've known
were entrenched in their craziness.
I left them the way I found them,
and walked on.

They could not come to terms with life as it is.

One of them couldn't handle road kill.
Went into deep mourning every time
they came upon it.

One of them couldn't handle what they called
"insensitivity,"
And was super-sensitive to all things
that looked like they might some day be
insensitivity.

The first order of business
is to understand how things are
and what can be changed
and what cannot be changed,
and let it be because it is,
always has been,
and will forever be.

"Life eats life."
That's basic.
We can wait for the wheat to die naturally,
harvest it and make bread,
but it had to die in order for us to live.
Something has to die for us to live.
We have to square up with that,
and let it be because it is.

Here is the deal:

1) Accommodation and adjustment, Kid.
Accommodation and adjustment.

2) Yin/Yang.

3) Balance and harmony.

These are the three steps to living
as well as life can be lived.

We are here, you might say,
to serve the requirements
of balance and harmony.

Everything revolves around
and flows from
and leads to 
balance and harmony.

The more consciously and deliberately,
intentionally and devotedly,
we serve the needs of balance and harmony,
the better things are for us and those around us.

The "sweet spot" is in the center
of the bell-shaped ("Normal distribution") curve.

"This is the way things are,
and this is what we can do about it,
and that is the way things are."

Jesus did not know what he was doing.
The Buddha did not know what he was doing.
Both of them did what they needed to do
to balance and harmonize themselves 
with their life,
and what they did was what they were doing.

They did not have a system for 
"The Way Things Ought To Be."
Neither had what it takes to be
King of the Realm.
Neither could have governed 
even a small country.

They lived and died in the service
of their idea of how things ought to be
in conjunction with how things are.

That is all any of us can do.

There is no figuring it out,
getting it down,
and having it made.

There is only dealing with how things are
here and now
in light of the three steps to living well:

Accommodation and adjustment, Kid.
Accommodation and adjustment.

Yin/Yang

Balance and harmony.

Get that down and we have it made,
as much as we can have it made,
on the heaving waves
of the wine dark sea. 

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