Spiritual Mathematics and Technologies
Count on nothing, stop tallying misfortune, and forget your age. Be only here and now, staying with whatever you may choose to do, or must, until it’s done or you are. Stop dallying with unimportance. Let your impatience become equal to your patience and stand on the same footing.
From “Being Here”
None of this is on my time. I resent nothing and no one.
I share in the whole world by laying claim to none of it,
Tasting what is sweet and bitter even in my own life
Like a sample off a plate in someone else’s home.
I am not here to stay and know it, and I no longer have a care
Because I wish to stay sane enough to keep caring.
Care like you died and kept on caring.
Care without a care, almost in just the way so many other events
Happen with no reflection or without meaning to,
But only because you mean it so much
That you are willing to be as heedless as it takes.
Become as ignorant of the parts and the frictions between them
As you were once so conscious of them in relation to yourself.
Be aware of being who you are in the arms or in the teeth of what is.
Forget all that might have been or might not be and there you are.
- P.M.
From “Being Here”
None of this is on my time. I resent nothing and no one.
I share in the whole world by laying claim to none of it,
Tasting what is sweet and bitter even in my own life
Like a sample off a plate in someone else’s home.
I am not here to stay and know it, and I no longer have a care
Because I wish to stay sane enough to keep caring.
Care like you died and kept on caring.
Care without a care, almost in just the way so many other events
Happen with no reflection or without meaning to,
But only because you mean it so much
That you are willing to be as heedless as it takes.
Become as ignorant of the parts and the frictions between them
As you were once so conscious of them in relation to yourself.
Be aware of being who you are in the arms or in the teeth of what is.
Forget all that might have been or might not be and there you are.
- P.M.
Posted by Paul at 10:06 AM Permalink
21 Comments:
What DOES matter is, did you get further than the first couple of posts at m'place?
If y'didn't go very far in (I guess that would mean "farther" before, not "further")
but if y'went shallow, you may have missed the surprise over at the blog.
And, to be sure, it ain't so complicated as a discussion on living or dying, but then, I do like how you put it on this post.
Sort'a like, don't worry t'name how you live....just live! Good, bad, indifferent...mox nix.
but, go back there, I beg of you....what I did I've only done three times ever.
HAZZBUZZ: I think a Buddhist might understand this post as speaking to "detachment." Christians perhaps as "dying to self and living to Christ" - although Christians can mean very different things when they use that phrase.
However you think of it, I'm sure that's true - that no one quite or fully gets there. I don't think there's any "arriving" once and for all.
Keshi.
Sending you beautiful blessings, as always, MW
I will get back to it again and again.
BTW, how are you?
Oh, and Thanks.
I love this, thanks for sharing!
- Paul
Well,i'm back to blogging,my friend.
i really missed you,guys..
--Gangadhar
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Monks and cloistered nuns would find it easier than some of us to live the way you are suggesting (detached), because they have only themselves. But I think it would be nearly impossible to be that detached, that heedless, if you have children you love and for whom you are responsible. Once they are grown and able to make it on their own, you are in a better position to conduct your life the way you are suggesting.
When I read your post, I was reminded of cutter horses for some reason. I am still trying to figure out the connection.
I am not an equestrian, but I happened to watch part of a program recently about cutter horses. These are horses that herd cattle. When you are riding a cutter horse that is in the process of separating a cow or two from the rest of the herd, you need to remain centered as you sit in the saddle so that you do not get thrown off. But also, if I understand this correctly, you can't be rigid. You have to be loose and limber in order to handle the jolts you receive from the horse's cutting activities.
You and the horse are a team, but actually it is the horse that is doing the work and you sort of go along with it signaling the horse now and then when needed with pressure from your legs.
Life, sometimes, is like a cutter horse. You have to stay centered when life takes over, but you can't be rigid or you will get thrown off. I suppose that is the connection to your post.
This was a thoughtful post.
“… waiting; not motionless, nor shaken or displaced by any shock from without.”
she speaks of waiting as a state in which we suspend ourselves, and allow the truth to penetrate our minds. a state of active contemplation achieved thru suspension of any thought that powers our faculties of observation.
it also makes me think of a book by thich naht hanh in which he spoke of living in the moment (my paraphrase here). this leads me, then, to see wisdom as the fruits of experiential presence, i.e. living in the moment ~ emptying one's ego of desire and superfluous materialistic thoughts.
i have just come from gautami's blog ... and this post resonates with me strongly @ this moment.
i have missed coming here. :)
TO ALL: Thanks for these comments. I might try to make the next post something on detachment since some people have raised questions and hopefully by Thursday if I can detach myself from some stupid boring work I have to do.
Serenely,
Paul
I am so grateful that you wrote and posted this!
In case you know the I Ching at all - I think you just captured Hexagram 25, Without Entanglement, in a nutshell. Hence this post.
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