Fleeting appearances..

 

Questions arise

As seeking..yet there 

Is no question and

No seeking..these are

Fleeting appearances

Whole already..

Religions arise as

Processes and places 

With answers to 

Questions of seeking..

Yet..religions are

Fleeting appearances 

Whole already..

Spirituality arises as

Processes and places

With answers...

Henry David Thoreau long ago spoke of most people living lives of "quiet desperation."  This refers to the nagging feeling that somehow one's fulfillment, or wholeness, is out of reach. A perennial feeling!  However, in times past, many of these people felt they were sheltered to some degree by political, social,  and pointedly, religious institutions, whether that was a valid assumption or not.  But, in more recent times, these institutions seem to be imploding, or perhaps their real institutional colors are more on display.  Corruption and distrust seem rampant.  Which leaves the quiet desperation behind, in favor of a more painful vociferous variety.  Middle classes have shrunk, bringing more people into the realm of worry and overwork.  The desired "fulfillment" seems far beyond reach to many.  Church policies seem largely based on hierarchies, confrontation, and, simply, separation as reality...truly of questionable relevance.  The example of Jesus lies far from these institutional doorsteps, although, to be fair, there seem to be fringes which know this. (As there always have been..and these fringes may contain the seeds of resurrection and restoration).  Many leaving the church fully appreciate the transparent institutional malaise, and find any internal repair not to be likely.  Perhaps some form of institutional crucifixion is the crying need of the day...

Thanks!  Charlie Coon

Storyland is home...

 

Storyland

Is the dream home

Featuring separate

Rooms and characters

Raucous and calm and

Feeling like home to

Some...apparently

Not to all...

Here's the thing..

 

Here's the thing

(Not a thing)..

Speakers speak of

No you nor me

No this nor that..

Seemingly.."No"

All the way down..

The seeker stands

Aghast at this

Denial of what

Seems as things.. 

What seems missing

In the speaking is that

The thing in Separation

Is what is denied

All the way down...

Humbling and surrendering and mountaintops..

 

Humble surrender

Seen as technique

Of approaching a mountaintop..

Pursuits of a self-bound

Character with a mountaintop

In sight and a new self

Imagined as boundless..

Nothing wrong or right

With that story...

Pure nothingness..(Fernando Pessoa..)

 

I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

—Fernando Pessoa...

The wood-chopper (Walden, Henry David Thoreau)

 

Hi Lucy,

Good meeting!  We are still with the wood-chopper.  It seems that HDT has

 a great admiration for him, and perhaps sensed that the chopper was 

where he wanted to be.  But the chopper came to where he was from a state 

of innocence, whereas HDT, in setting up his Walden "experiment," came 

from a background of learning and cultural assimilation.  He designed the 

Walden setup, and wished to have an experience there which would answer 

all of his questions.  The chopper lived in the moment, and was "satisfied" 

with his life as it was.  Huge difference!  HDT was a seeker, not so the 

chopper.  So, might we say that Walden was an exercise in futility?  Or, 

maybe it is valuable in that it illustrates the futility of HDT's approach in 

finding what is already the case.  Are we all choppers, really, and our seeking 

is to find our real chopper-nature?   "Lives of quiet desperation"

means that this nature is already present, but seemingly hidden.

Or maybe not..!!  

Charlie

Impossibility..!!

 

The speaker

Is challenged..by

Impossibility..

One word spoken

Speaks of 

Separation..

Even to say

Not-two..is two..

Apparently 

No escape 

From two..

Apparently...