I had a sailing friend once
who told me,
"I became a sailor
when I realized
the sea was out to get me."
It applies across the board,
around the table
throughout the universe.
Life is out to get us.
Are we prepared?
Republicans are not prepared.
Fascists don't have a clue.
Their faith is in AR-15's
and killing their enemies,
at least making them suffer
and stay far away.
That's what building the wall is all about.
And exporting immagrants
and all those who don't belong here--
which is all those who aren't fascists.
Hitler killed himself in a bunker
built to keep them out.
Killing himself was his final escape.
That is the ultimate end of all fascists
everywhere throughout time.
It is all out to get them
and they have nowhere to go--
and they are terminally terrified,
with no inner life that is
beyond the reach
of all life can do.
Talk to fascists about
emptiness, stillness and silence
and they blanche and retch
and shoot you dead
because you are Woke,
which simply means you know what's what
and aren't afraid of it,
and they hate you all the way forever.
Woke is knowing life is out to get you
and joining in the game,
knowing we have nothing to lose
and nothing to fear
because there is nothing to want
that we don't already have.
We come into the world with all we need
to find what we need
to do what needs to be done
when, where, and how it needs to be done
in each situation as it arises
all our life long.
Life is equipped for life--
in a "Here we are, now what?"
kind of way.
No matter what,
we return to the emptiness, stillness and silence
and wait to see/hear/know
what to do about what needs to be done
through all of the circumstances
life throws at us.
All we need to realize
to know it is so
is that here we are,
after all we have been through
and dealt with,
we are still here, now.
It cannot be denied.
And we have what it takes
to be here/now all the way.
Our inner resources
are grounded/founded
upon the realization
of our original nature
and the innate virtues/characteristics
that are built into our DNA.
Realization is the key.
We have to know what we know.
This means making ourselves available
to the Knower within
with regular returns
to the meditative state
of trusting/listening/looking/relying
upon our ability to find the way
through the clashing rocks
and heaving waves of the wine dark sea
that is our life
simply by following integrity,
sincerity, spontaneity
without contrivance or orchestration,
or even knowing why,
letting happen what needs to happen
and doing what needs to be done in response
to what is called for time after time.
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