THE STAGE IS NOW YOURS

 

 

 

“HE WHO BINDS

HIMSELF A JOY,

DOES THE WINGED

LOVE DESTROY

BUT HE WHO KISSES

THE JOY AS IT FLIES

LIVES IN BEAUTY’S

SUNRISE.”

 

WHEN A BEING BINDS

OR CONTROLS

ANOTHER BEING,

HE IS NEITHER

SUPERIOR OR INFERIOR

TO THAT BEING.

IT IS BEINGS

CONTROLLING BEINGS,

COERCING THEM

INTO CONFORMING

WITH THEMSELVES

THAT CAUSE THE

DISHARMONY, DESPAIR

AND FRUSTRATION

 

THE REASON FOR

MY LIFE'S DEBACLE

WAS THAT I WANTED

YOU TO CONFORM

TO MY WORLD PICTURE,

MY DESIRE TO CONTROL

AND THUS BRING YOU

AS A MOSAIC

A DECORATION PIECE

IN THE GALLERY OF MY LIFE.

 

SUPERIOR AND INFERIOR

DO NOT COME INTO

THE WORLD OF BEAUTY,

WHICH IS THE ONLY REASON

I SEE LIFE, WORTH LIVING.

NOR DOES CONTROLLING

WHICH IS MERELY

SUBJUGATING ANOTHER

BE IT AN ANT

OR AN ANTELOPE-

OR A HUMAN

AND MAKING THEM

LIVING BEINGS

JUST A STATIC

DUST STAINED

FRAGMENT OF

ONES WORLD.

 

“THE CISTERN CONTAINS,

THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS.”

 

WHEN ONE SAYS THAT

HE WHO CONTROLS

IS SUPERIOR TO HIM

WHO IS CONTROLLED

ONE FORGETS, THAT

IN THIS NET LIKE TRAP

WHERE ALL TRAP ALL,

THERE IS STILL A MAGIC

CALLED- EXISTENCE.

 

WHICH MOST, NO ALL OF

US ARE NOT BOTHERED

ABOUT BECAUSE OF THE

INSISTENT AND INCESSANT

DEMANDS, THAT LIVING

MAKES, ON US.

 

BUT THIS IS EXISTENCE

AS MUCH AS THE BIRTH RIGHT

OF THE HEDGE CRICKET

AS IT IS OF THE SUPREMELY

ARROGANT “HOMO SAPIENS.”

THIS EXISTENCE IS

ONE IN ALL AND ALL IN ONE.

 

EXISTENCE IS IN ALL OF US

BUT INSTEAD OF DELIGHTING

IN ITS OVERFLOWING JOY

WELL BEING AND HUMANITY

WE GET LOST IN A SEA OF

EGO, DESIRE AND POSSESSION.

 

AND THE BELIEF

IF WE CAN PUT

A YOKE ON A COW

OR A BIT IN A HORSE

OR MAKE A CIRCUS

ELEPHANT STAND

ON A TINY STOOL

OR TRAIN A LION

OR A TIGER, TO FORGET

ITS VERY NATURE

AND BECOME A SHOW PIECE

FOR HUMANITY,

TO DEMONSTRATE CONTROL

WE LOOSE TOUCH

WITH OUR ESSENTIAL NATURE

WHOSE EMBODIMENTS ARE

LOVE, BEAUTY, AND FREEDOM.

NOT RESTRAINING OR CONTROLLING

OR CONFINING IN ANY OTHER

SUBTLE CAGE INVENTED

BY THE HUMAN MIND.

 

“THE FIRST STEP IS THE LAST STEP

IF YOU RESTRAIN, YOU ARE RESTRAINED;

IF YOU CONTROL, YOU ARE CONTROLLED;

IF YOU BIND, YOU ARE BOUND;

IF YOU HATE, YOU ARE HATED.”

 

THE UNIVERSE IS A MIRROR

IT REFLECTS WHAT YOU ARE

AND EVERY REFLECTION IS TRUE.

WHEN THESE REFLECTIONS

REFRACT IN THE MIND

THE MIND DIVIDES AND

YOU ARE THE EXPERIENCER

THAT IS THE EXPERIENCE

YOU ARE THE DOER

THAT IS THE DONE.

YOU ARE THE LIVING

AND YOU WILL DIE

AND THE BISECTOR IS TIME.

 

EXISTENCE IS ONE

FOR ONE THROB OF THE ARTERY

AS ON THE COLD GREY STONE

I SAT AND I REALISED

THAT ONE IS IN ANIMATE

MANKIND INANIMATE FANTASY.

 

HOW WOULD YOU FEEL CONTROLLED?

NOT VERY NICE, SO DON’T CONTROL.

BECAUSE IF YOU CONTROL

YOU ARE CONTROLLED.

 

“ELEMENTARY MY DEAR WATSON

THE STAGE IS NOW YOURS.

INFER LIFE IF YOU CAN.

 

 

~Lonelybeing~

 

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