Month: February 2010

  • Nothing To Fix

    Nothing To Fix

    I’m changing with time. Time. Interesting notion. Bushido teaches something I find helpful, metaphorically at least. “I am already dead.” You have already lost the fight, so you can decide what to do with your “failure”. If everything is a failure then what is failure? I am a huge failure. I never sustained gainful employment.…

  • Attitudes About Play

    Attitudes About Play

    Today, we talk about play. People seem to have a lot of attitudes about play. One is to see it as frivolous. Another sees it as refuge from a “reality” they don’t like. For some their play is even work. What are your attitudes about play, friends? I see play as a vital form of…

  • Smiles And Laughter

    Smiles And Laughter

    I was asked to smile all the time, and I couldn’t figure out why. Then I finally notice that I have a natural frowning mouth. I am often told I look bored and upset even when I’m not. I seem to be scowling normally also. To know if I’m smiling you have to listen to…

  • Is It Serious?

    Is It Serious?

    Let’s look at these serious situations. Seriousness, hmm. What use is that idea? I do these talks because I am completely willing to be foolish. Is nature serious? Is a hunting wolf serious? I suspect not. I suspect it is just hungry. What would happen if it were serious about hunting? He would need a…

  • Time For Play

    Time For Play

    I once wept at a friends funeral. It was a first for me. He was a dear friend. Had helped me find a place in humanity. Helped me get off the streets. When he was killed by the train I wept, because he had spent a life “trying” and he had been so hopeful. Human…

  • Are We Having Fun Yet?

    Are We Having Fun Yet?

    Can anyone tell me what they do in life that isn’t play? I’d say sleep, but dreams are play. So scratch that, the “little death” is play. Cleaning? Cleaning is play too. It’s “Let’s pretend this isn’t dirty after I spend a lot of energy making it look like it’s not.” Cleaning to my standard…

  • It’s A Game

    It’s A Game

    The topic is play. Plato has a saying and I’ll paraphrase. He said you can learn more about a person from an hour of play than a year of conversation. What do you think of this friends? Yeahhh, get me in a game of monopoly and you’ll find out! Part of why play is like that…

  • Stories Of Life

    Stories Of Life

    Who doesn’t have stories? Who does something that isn’t play? I think we are stories. We are stories and we are more. We are the shapers of stories. Problem is, we have some serious issues, like we believe things are serious. Play is permission to do. When we play as kids, we get or give…

  • The Game Board

    The Game Board

    In Taoism, they speak of the way that cannot be named. Friends, we all started from the same space on the game board, but we forgot what we were playing and why. Lose one turn? Regrettably we lose many turns in life, because we have to be “serious.” How many broken dreams do people live with?…

  • Why Of Reality

    Why Of Reality

    Metaphysics is the body of wisdom not related to the “whats” of reality. That would be science or art. Metaphysics is about the “whys” which means there is a metaphysics of both science and art. They have said the world is a stage in a great many metaphors, and the assertion reflects a very deep…

  • Theatre of Metaphysics

    Theatre of Metaphysics

    Ever actor has a role. There is no movie without these roles. Roles are “spirits.” We recognize the role of every character in theatre without being told. It’s quite easy, because the “spirit” of the role is real. There is not this father or that father. These aren’t the spirit. There is “the father.” There…

  • We Are The Actor

    We Are The Actor

    To perform an act of hypnosis, you don’t have to understand my words. You don’t even have to be the same species as me. This is a proven fact. Any living thing can be hypnotized. They used to call it “enchantment”, same thing, and well… Everything is a living thing so “objects” can be enchanted…

  • Energy Blocks

    Energy Blocks

    As a child, my mother thought it was amazing that I had such a good sense of direction. I could feel where North was. At some point in my childhood, I recall my uncanny ability being discussed and it being called unwholesome. They call any awareness beyond there’s unwholesome. It is a xenophobic reaction, and…

  • Relating To People

    Relating To People

    A very passive guy. Hates confrontation of any kind. Hates even to criticize anyone. He is also funny. He gets so frustrated with people, because they don’t seem to understand how to “act right.” They do not treat him as he treats them. Just call him names all the time or don’t know how to…

  • Practice Of Reverence

    Practice Of Reverence

    Some people proudly declare that they have no heroes, and that they worship nothing. This isn’t necessarily a negative statement, but it tends to be short-sighted. They lie? Also true. Some people feel they are down to earth. I would offer that the most down to earth people are those we bury. Bury, inter, put…

  • Accept Reverence

    Accept Reverence

    Reverence has a complimentary attitude, irreverence. Our drive to reverence is not necessarily a drive to religiosity, and many people gloat at the idea that they are irreverent thinkers, that they hold nothing sacred. To paraphrase Jesus, “They know not what they do.” Irreverence has its place when it stems from innate human reverence. When…

  • Keeping Reverence

    Keeping Reverence

    Too much like or dislike can be very narrowing and corrupting. It seems to lead to obsession, which certainly is unhealthy? A computer metaphor is in order. Dichotomous thinking causes fragmentation, which causes loss of moral integrity. Obsession blocks adaptability, and nature and life are a flow. Flow and you live. Stagnate and you die. Can…