November 05, 2024

1) Do what you can do 
and don't worry about--
or even think about--
what you can't do.

Doing what we can do
with the gifts of our original nature,
our innate virtues 
(The things we do best
and enjoy doing most),
and our intrinsic intuition
about what is called for
in each situation as it arises
will set the cosmos in its traces
and create a brand new world.

No kidding.
Why would I lie?

2) Enter emptiness-stillness-silence
(One thing, not three)
regularly,
waiting for what happens there
to deepen your relationship
with your original nature,
innate virtues
(The things you do best
and enjoy doing most)
and your intrinsic intuition.

These are our gifts
to use in the service
of what is called for
in each situation as it arises
all our life long.

In order to make the adjustment
from mind control
to body (nature/virtues/intuition) control,
we have to shift our internal guide
from getting/having what we want
to doing what is called for 
by our situation/circumstances.

Living to serve our circumstances
is quite different from
living to serve ourselves.
Our orientation from inner to outer concern
makes all the difference
in how we live our life--
and in the quality of the life we live.

The focus of the time we spend in silence
is in this area of what we are living for,
what we are doing with our life,
how good is the good we call good
and whose good is served by the good 
we call good.

In the silence, we conduct an inner scan
to see what is in charge of our choices
and what direction our choices determine.

Living to do what is called for
is quite different than
living to do/get what we want.

It is the difference that makes the difference.

And we get there in the emptiness-stillness-silence.

3) Joseph Campbell said, "Myths are public dreams
and dreams are private myths."

And, "Myths are the mental supports of rites;
rites the physical enactments of myths."

It amounts to trying to say
what cannot be said,
so we project what we are trying to say
on pictures, animals, drawings, sacred stones
and objects, dancing and enactments, music
and vocalizations, or just, "AAAUUUUUUMMMMMMM..."

When it comes to The Mystery,
we don't know what to say,
or how to say it,
or what to do,
or how to think about it...

We are at a loss for words,
for words can never do more
than news, weather, sports,
gossip and conversation.

And are left with
entering the emptiness-stillness-silence
and waiting there
to experience The Mystery
and ponder it for the rest of time.

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