July 07, 2024 – B

Governments world-wide 
are a front for money.
Are a front for the International Mafia.
It's a joke.
A farce.
A nightmare.
Nothing is what it purports to be.
Leaving us with the Wailing Wall
as the symbol of truth in these times.

The Buddhists among us have a saying,
which is a chant:
"The Jewel is in the Lotus
and the Lotus is in the mud
at the bottom of the pond."

Om Mani Padme Hummmmmmm...

Shortened it goes: "No mud, no lotus."
It is the Buddha's way 
of living in the shit that is life
as those who are awake to their situation.

The wisdom of the Blues,
which is that of black men and women
in the Deep South,
goes like this:
"If you ain't cryin' you're lyin'
And if you ain't laughing you're dyin.'

It is The Way of living in 
the stark contradiction
between life as it is
and life as it needs to be/ought to be,
Wherever life is being lived.

Those who see
don't have a chance
of effecting/doing what must be done
to bring forth life as it needs to be lived
in the life they are living.
So what?
What difference does that make?
So what if it doesn't make a difference?

It calls out the lie!
Jesus called it, "Turning the other cheek!
Going the second mile!"
Do it as it needs to be done no matter what!

The way out of suffering
from the Buddha's standpoint
and from the standpoint of the Blues
is: Don't let it get you down,
Don't take it seriously.
And don't stop living life
As it needs to be lived
In each situation as it arises--
Even though it won't do any good!
It IS good!
And that's all that ever matters!
Being good for nothing!
Doing what is good
whether it does any good or not!

Being the lotus in the mud 
at the bottom of the pond. 
Forever. 

It's all about perspective,
don't you see, 
and how we choose to see
what we look at.

Life, the world, the cosmos, existence,
experience is all an optical illusion,
now we see it, now we don't.
Now it is like this, now it is like that.

See?