April 26th, 2008
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There are only 3 truths in life as far as I can tell…
- Life is
- Forms are impermanent
- Energy exists between opposite polarities
Everything else is just made up.
Human existence is totally fucked up – and we could come up with all kinds of mumbo jumbo theories to explain that. But in 200 years will any of it matter? Does our menial human existence really matter while we are hurled through space on this gigantic living sphere at 47,000 miles a second? Really, we are just shuffling back and forth and in circles fooling ourselves that anything we do has any significance whatsoever…
Be love my woman… That’s the only thing that’s real. Love is vulnerable, love is a terror, love is ruthless, love is raw.
Nothing will give us anything. So everything is just as means of giving something.
Each second squeezed from our life is a moment of giving…
What are you giving?
- Blaise
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March 29th, 2008
Tyler and Narrator are making soap from the fat of human bodies
Tyler: Yeah with enough soap one could blow up just about anything
Narrator Voice Over: Tyler was full of useful information
Tyler: Ancient peoples found that their clothes got cleaner when they washed them at a certain point in the river. Do you know why?
Narrator: No
Tyler motions to come over. Narrator leaves his job of stirring the fat to face Tyler across a table. Tyler begins to put on safety gloves, glasses
Tyler: Because human sacrifices were once made on the hills above this river. Bodies burned, water seeped through the wooden ashes to create lye. This is lye
Holds up a bottle containing white flakey substance
Tyler: The crucial ingredient. Once it mixed with the melted fat of the bodies, a thick white soapy discharge crept into the river. Can I see your hand please?
Narrator gives him his hand. Tyler grasps onto it, licks his lips and kisses the back of Narrators hand
Narrator: What is this?
Tyler looks at him, sprinkles the lye on the narrators hand and says:
Tyler: This is a chemical burn.
Narrator screams in pain, staring at his hand as it begins to burn, reeling while Tyler grasps it tightly
Tyler: It will hurt more than you have ever been burned and you will have a scar
Narrator: What are you doing?!!! [screams]
Narrator Voice Over: Guided meditation worked for cancer it could work for this
Narrator closes his eyes, cut to scene of green forest in his mind. Cut back to tyler.
Tyler: Stay with the pain, don’t shut this out
Narrator: No, no [screaming moving violently, trying to escape tyler’s grasp]
Tyler: stay with the pain, don’t shut this out. The first soap was made from the ashes of heroes, like the first monkey shot into space. Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing
Narrator closes his eyes again, trying to shut the pain out, trying to be calm
Narrator Voice Over: I tried not to think of the words searing flesh.
Tyler: Stop it! This is your pain. This is your burning hand its right here
Narrator: I’m going to my cave, I’m going to my cave, I’m going to find my power animal [sobbing]
Tyler: No! Don’t deal with it the way those dead people do. Come On!
Narrator: I get the point okay please!
Tyler: No what you’re feeling is premature enlightenment
Narrator closes his eyes, cut to his mind’s eye in his cave. Cut back to Tyler. Tyler hits Narrator across his face
Tyler: this is the greatest moment of your life and you’re off somewhere missing it
Narrator: I am not! [sobbing and grunting in pain]
Tyler: Shut up. Our fathers were our models for god, if our fathers bailed what does that tell you about god?
Narrator: [grunts, eyes closed still fighting the pain]
Tyler hits narrator across the face again. Narrator still reeling, moves his hand, attempting to reach for sink, for water. Tyler holds fast.
Tyler: Listen to me. You can run water over your hand to make it worse, or, look at me. Their eyes meet. Or you can use vinegar to neutralize the burn
Narrator: Please let me have it!! Please!! [sobbing]
Tyler: First you have to give up. First you have to know, not fear, know that one day you are going to die.
Narrator: You don’t know how this feels!! [angrily, rage in his eyes looking at tyler]
Tyler stares back at him and lifts up his right hand to reveal a massive scar on the back of it.
Tyler: Its only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.
Narrator: Okay [still painful look on his face but accepting]
Tyler slowly lets go of narrators hand finally where the flesh is melting, fizzling, smoking and burning. Narrator stares intently at his hand. Holding it out in front of himself on his own, feeling it. Not trying to run from it or trying to minimize the pain somehow. Tyler then reaches for a bottle of vinegar and dumps it on Narrators outreached hand. Narrator, with the final relief of the pain clenches his hand towards his chest and drops to the ground. Tyler looks down at him.
Tyler: Congratulations, you are one step closer to hitting bottom.
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March 26th, 2008
Only within the full magnitude of loneliness does true love begin to take root.
Grasping for an “other” instead of delving within the dark chasm of our loneliness only leads us further from the love we all seek. Love is the knowing and the feeling of unity. That we are one, and that our enemies mirror our most innocent aspects. Those pieces of ourselves that were banished from our parent’s kingdom so long ago. Held hostage by our inner judge and critic - our most vulnerable and human tendencies suffer in misery. Tortured forever by our disapproval. Yet brought forever before us by those we most want to ignore. Those who bring us pain and discomfort. They bring to us our abandoned orphans. Aspects of ourselves that we resist, deny and desperately hide. But we can’t deny that there are homeless drug addicts living in our streets. Nor can we deny that the world is wretched with violence and misery. All of these outward appearances mirror aspects of our inner selves.
As Gandi said; “Be the change you want to see in the world”. If you want to change, you must be crazy. To create conscious change within yourself is almost impossible. You have better chances of becoming the next president of your country. Your suffering has to be great enough that you cannot continue to live with yourself the way you are. And no escapism relieves you any longer. Your pain becomes immune to your own addictions. When this happens and you finally surrender to the loneliness that rests deep in your heart, then change begins to happen on it’s own.
Only when you surrender to the intense discomfort of your sense of loneliness, completely, without distracting or running from that feeling, will love begin to take root. And slowly fill your being. Slowly and surely will it burn your pain away.
But most likely you will just suffer and sit in loneliness for years and years. And if you’re like most humans, you’ll die in intense pain and loneliness, regretting that you wasted your life on such petty and trivial things. The more you run from your pain now, the more it will bite you in the ass later.
- Blaise
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February 17th, 2008
RULE 1:
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HAVING THIS PERSON IN YOUR LIFE.
It takes two to tango, so stop trying to play the blame game. See your own role in, and your own contribution to, what is happening in your relationship (romantic, professional, etc.)
RULE 2:
DON’T TREAT THE OTHER PERSON IN YOUR LIFE ANY DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU WOULD A STRANGER.
Familiarity has a dreadful habit of breeding contempt! Therefore treat your spouse as you would a stranger; also your boss, your kids, your family and your friends. Always treat others politely and with respect, even if you have known them ever since pa fell off the bus.
RULE 3:
ACCEPT YOURSELF FOR WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE.
Acknowledge your shortcomings to yourself and remember that they are your passage to power and your ticket to freedom. Therefore stop trying to pretend you are not your potential. Instead of continuously justifying your behaviour, learn to listen. Most important of all, learn to listen to your heart, your feelings.
RULE 4:
ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE POSITIVE; FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE.
Start giving yourself and those around you credit for what you and they are doing right. It is so easy to criticise, to break down, to point out failure. But how often do you praise either yourself or others for a job well done? We all need a pat on the head from time to time to keep believing in ourselves — even you!
RULE 5:
ACKNOWLEDGE GENDER ACCORDING TO ITS PROPER POTENTIAL.
If you are a man, then treat the women in your life as females and not as your mother. If you are a woman, then treat the men in your life as males and not as little boys.
RULE 6:
COMPRESS TIME.
Learn not to waste time through indulging in your behaviour. Instead, learn to communicate effectively by being open, honest and ruthless. Don’t assume that others can smell what you are silently stewing or fuming about.
RULE 7:
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND IN OTHERS.
Stop believing that everyone is out to get you. Practice the mirror concept and therefore acknowledge that others are there to help us and not to victimise us!
RULE 8:
Make allowances for the differences between males and females.
RULE 9:
LAUGH! LIFE IS FUN!
Learn to see your own actions, physical, emotional or mental, as well as those of others, for what they really are, namely, folly. If you do, you will find yourself laughing a great deal more than crying. People are really very funny creatures, and that includes you!
RULE 10:
KEEP A JOURNAL.
Life is the most important journey you will ever undertake, and every important journey should be carefully logged in a journal. If you do that, you will be surprised at how much you learn about yourself, about others and about life in general. Record everything, even your feelings, emotions, thoughts, dreams and, of course, the date. Dates tend to reveal patterns, like for example, feeling morose around Christmas time, or feeling happy in spring, etc. But the most important thing about keeping a journal is that, by writing everything down, you actually commit yourself to your decisions and therefore you start taking responsibility for your own life.
RULE 11:
BE REAL!
Make yourself and others real!
Excerpt from: This Darned Elusive Happiness, by Theun Mares
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February 14th, 2008
“To be free doesn’t mean having the power to do what we want, but it means wanting what we have the power to do.”
- Jean-Paul Sarte
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February 6th, 2008
You come to us from another world
From beyond the stars and void of space.
Transcendent. Pure. Of unimaginable beauty.
Bringing with you the essence of Love.
You transform all who are touched by you.
Mundane concerns, troubles and sorrows
Dissolve in your presence.
Bringing joy to ruler and ruled.
To peasant and king.
You bewilder us with your grace.
All evils transform into goodness.
You are the master alchemist.
You light the fire of Love in earth and sky
in heart and soul of every being.
Through your loving existence and nonexistance merge.
All opposites unite.
All that is profane becomes sacred again.
- Rumi
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February 5th, 2008
“Warrior-travelers don’t complain, they take everything that infinity hands them as a challenge. A challenge is a challenge. It isn’t personal. It cannot be taken as a curse or a blessing. A warrior-traveler either wins the challenge or the challenge demolishes him. It’s more exciting to win, so win.!”
- Don Juan Matus, from The Active Side of Infinity by Carlos Castaneda
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February 2nd, 2008
"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
- J. F. Clarke
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February 2nd, 2008
"A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided."
- Anthony Robbins
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January 23rd, 2008
Impossibility Dissolution Step #1: Don’t lose sight of the deeper goal. While we mostly pursue material and superficial goals in business, our social or family life or attaining our own personal desires. It’s important to remember what the deeper spiritual goal of each one of us is. Which is enlightenment. Enlightenment is nothing more than living your day to day doings while being grounded in the essential truth that you are a spirit being incarnating in the physical reality. Also, in enlightenment you know that all forms are subject to impermanence. So while you can enjoy each form you happen to experience in any given moment, you are not attached to it. So while you, or I, move towards accomplishing anything, be it impossible or not, remember the deeper purpose.
Impossibility Dissolution Step #2: Take the necessary ACTIONS to practice realizing Step #1 If you’re like me, it is easy to get caught up doing, doing, doing. And soon enough as I begin to feel short on time, my spiritual practices can begin to lose their priority. If you compromise your spiritual and health practices because of getting caught up in believing you have limited time and other doings are a higher priority - then you are making a BIG MISTAKE. And you will NEVER accomplish the impossible. To even consider approaching the impossible with the goal accomplishing it, you’ve got to be able to channel a much higher vibration and energy than what is required to accomplish the possible.
Impossibility Dissolution Step #3: Find Your Map There are a million different paths that lead to the same place. Even the impossible has an inconceivable number of variable routes to it. But for you, and for me, there is but ONE path to take. You’ve got to find that one path that will lead you there. You’ve got to FEEL it out. Look at your options. It’s kind of like deciding where to go by putting a bunch of maps on a table, closing your eyes and dropping your finger on wherever feels best. Examine each option you have to accomplish the impossible. Maybe you can take this road. Or maybe you can take a longer road, but stay with some friends along the way. Or maybe it’s best to go somewhere off the road but in the general direction to pick up some work to help pay for your way there. You’ll know you’ve found the way once you begin to feel motivated and inspired and passionate about getting moving. Once you jump up and start packing. Or maybe for you, your map doesn’t require you to pack anything, so you just jump up and walk out the door.
Impossibility Dissolution Step #4: Lock N Load Set your sights on the impossible, choose whatever means you feel like to get there. And just do it. If you’ve followed each step to this point, then this will be easy to do. If you are firmly rooted in your spiritual depths and your physical body is strong and being nourished in all ways. Then you’ll be itching to get on with it. At this point, all philosophizing, reading, thinking and writing that do not bring you directly to accomplishing the impossible should only be used in order to follow step #2. Which is to keep your body, mind and spirit healthy and at the top of your priority.
Impossibility Dissolution Step #5: Don’t Waste Your Power on Gibber Jabber Gibber Jabber (mindless chat and talk) is the biggest deterrent to cultivating the necessary personal power to accomplishing the impossible. If it doesn’t serve your mission, or doesn’t uplift you in some way, avoid talking to people about accomplishing the impossible. Sometimes though, it may be fun to mention it to boost your spirits, in which case you will be simply following step 2. By all means, enjoy talking and connecting with people. But remain conscious. Remember your deepest spiritual mission - and speak and connect with that intention in mind.
Impossibility Dissolution Step #6: Do Whatever It Takes To accomplish the impossible, you will certainly meet all kinds of barriers along the way. Some will appear to be external, others will be obviously internal. If you have to spend 4 months sleeping only 4 hours a night, then do that. (As long as you don’t compromise Step 1 and 2). If you have to take longer than expected because more work is required and you have to spend more money on massages and vitamins to keep your body in good health… then do that. If you have to lie, cheat and steal. Do that, as long as you DON’T hurt anyone, particularly your own spirit. Lying, cheating and stealing should never be done out of ego or out of unconsciousness. To make sure you don’t mess up Step 1, you must always remain in full integrity. However, for some people lying, cheating and stealing is in full integrity. Personally, I don’t advocate lying, cheating and stealing - but what do I know? I’m sure it’s appropriate at times. In order to circumvent any tendencies toward unethical actions, I recommend holding FULL responsibility or the consequences of each and every action you decide to take. If you lie, be honest enough to admit that. If you can’t admit your dishonesty, then you have no business lying in the first place.
Impossibility Dissolution Step #7: Let your spirit flow free and surrender to the journey No matter where you go, there you are. No matter what impossibility you turn into a possibility and then into a reality. You’ll just be wherever you are. Your life is nothing more than a bunch of different scenes passing in front of you. With different characters, different sounds, different feelings, different emotions, thoughts, ups, downs, speeds, tempos, lights and meanings. It’s all impermanent. It all ends up at the same place. We all end up six feet under. So follow each step and let your spirit flow free, abandon yourself to the utter peace of observing and experiencing the moment, fully detached. And before you know it, you will have accomplished the impossible. And at that point, you’ll realize - again - that you are just experiencing another now moment. The impossible isn’t any more special or sacred than any other moment.
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