EMBODIED SERENITY
Friday, September 14, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
IF LIFE IS...............
if life is really what you do before you die............then what is life?
what is it that one could say that makes up a good life ?
life is a sequence of events, which by it's very nature relates itself to the past.
it is all a matter of degrees of how it relates to events which have already happened.
all is a comparison of the high and the low moments.
what if there had never been any high moments.....are the lows, all that low.
what is it that one is comparing to ?
are you looking at yourself or looking at others where the situation could be totally different.
what is accepted as good by one person might not be accepted by another at all..
what it comes down to; is it the right thing for you.
have you really utilised most of the opportunities that were presented to you and then can you compare if you have done enough or if you still have to do some more.
have you been honest with yourself and was there integrity in your dealings with others?
have you fulfilled your own true promise ?
have you used your latent talent ?
have you kept the flame and zest for life burning ?
coming off the rails is just a gentle reminder where the rails were and not that you have failed in any way.
the chances for you as an individual to succeed reside as much with your will and energy to go a bit further each time.
your goalposts are only your goalposts and belong to no one else.
at each stage congratulate yourself in how far you have come and recommit yourself to the next stage.
the truly amazing aspect of all of this is not always obtaining what you set out to do, but on the time , effort and the journey doing it.
what is it that one could say that makes up a good life ?
life is a sequence of events, which by it's very nature relates itself to the past.
it is all a matter of degrees of how it relates to events which have already happened.
all is a comparison of the high and the low moments.
what if there had never been any high moments.....are the lows, all that low.
what is it that one is comparing to ?
are you looking at yourself or looking at others where the situation could be totally different.
what is accepted as good by one person might not be accepted by another at all..
what it comes down to; is it the right thing for you.
have you really utilised most of the opportunities that were presented to you and then can you compare if you have done enough or if you still have to do some more.
have you been honest with yourself and was there integrity in your dealings with others?
have you fulfilled your own true promise ?
have you used your latent talent ?
have you kept the flame and zest for life burning ?
coming off the rails is just a gentle reminder where the rails were and not that you have failed in any way.
the chances for you as an individual to succeed reside as much with your will and energy to go a bit further each time.
your goalposts are only your goalposts and belong to no one else.
at each stage congratulate yourself in how far you have come and recommit yourself to the next stage.
the truly amazing aspect of all of this is not always obtaining what you set out to do, but on the time , effort and the journey doing it.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
IMAGES/REALITY
ARE THE IMAGES TRUE IN YOUR MIND ?
IS YOUR MIND TRUE TO THE IMAGES ?
DOES ONE REACT TO THE HEARSAY OF THE REALITY
OR THE REALITY OF THE HEARSAY ?
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IS YOUR MIND TRUE TO THE IMAGES ?
DOES ONE REACT TO THE HEARSAY OF THE REALITY
OR THE REALITY OF THE HEARSAY ?
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Friday, September 7, 2007
WHAT ARE THE ODDS
what are the odds of eating blackened fish five nights in a row ?
what are the odds of rubbing one's eyes after eating five chillies ?
you may be asking if the number five is significant or is it just the odds that we are talking about, or maybe it is the gourmet in me trying to come out.
anyway........there is always a time for a different sense of humour and just because people do not understand you,does not mean that it is not funny.
how many people can move in the dark and feel comfortable ?
who's laughing now ?
does it really matter which box you want to stand on; is your box really the best one ?
does it have a heritage and a label ?
it is really great that you had to fork out so much money for a designer box; for a designer who is now in a box and the grey suits running the corporation are laughing all the way to the bank.
maybe their collars are too tight !
maybe they have chillies in their boardrooms, or maybe they have found the the Achilles heel in your psyche and they are relishing the thought of how they put one over you and are going on about the demographics and the target markets and blah, blah, blah, and the interesting point about all of this is that whatever one wants is for free, and what the most rewarding is, is for free.
it is just a matter of extending oneself in the direction of the inner self and not the inside of one's pocket.
now, what were the odds again ?
do you chose your life or do you let the life chose you ?
do your senses lead you or are you being pulled by the fake nose ring ?
are those the fake wants and the fake thoughts that someone has planted and conditioned you to think ?
does the name Pavlov ring a bell ?
does it make you bark and salivate ?
what are the odds on that ?
probably you thought that you were a man's man or a woman's woman or a boy-girl or a girl-boy.
does this really make a difference to anyone who has a heart and a soul ?
what are the odds of meeting a real human being or an impostor ?
that is up to you to figure out.
there is a probability on both sides but the one outweighs the other.
which one is all in the way that you are wired and see the universe.
when was the last time that you cried ?
where does it really hurt ?
are you playing the consummate joker in all of this ?
where is the path going anyway ?
do you really want to know ?
does it really matter ?
does anything matter ?
what are the odds and how would you like to play this game ?
do you ever consider on being authentic or is it just another word on a package in a supermarket ?
is it the truth that you seek or is it what you want to hear to make yourself feel comfortable ?
how comfortable are you anyway ?
what are the odds now ?
are they in your favour ?
are you still playing with the same dice that you got when you were ten years old ?
is it a sense of timing and the great question is, do you have to have a designer watch to tell the time ?do the finer things in life give you that patina of sophistication and one-upmanship ?
is it your transport from one place to another ?
does it mean that you have suddenly arrived at your destination ?
what is the emptiness that you feel gnawing away at your gut ?
you had better run out and get a prescription, take a vacation, take a mistress or a Latino lover, get some botox, plastic sculpting-----add on, to fill yourself up.
maybe it will help and maybe not.
you could always addict yourself to some designer drug of choice and feel the man made ecstasy.
isn't that a rush-----that makes you feel better already, and to top it all is one headlong dash, backwards, as the everything that you have accomplished, starts to disappear before your very own eyes, and then comes the detox, rehab and whatever-----that is if you are able to afford it----you are able to do it.
so now is the chance to really work out the odds on having blackened fish five nights in a row or getting some chili in your eyes.
when you are able to work out these odds, your life plan will have a certain amount of clarity and all will be smooth sailing, until you hit the next squall or bad weather patch.
what are the odds of rubbing one's eyes after eating five chillies ?
you may be asking if the number five is significant or is it just the odds that we are talking about, or maybe it is the gourmet in me trying to come out.
anyway........there is always a time for a different sense of humour and just because people do not understand you,does not mean that it is not funny.
how many people can move in the dark and feel comfortable ?
who's laughing now ?
does it really matter which box you want to stand on; is your box really the best one ?
does it have a heritage and a label ?
it is really great that you had to fork out so much money for a designer box; for a designer who is now in a box and the grey suits running the corporation are laughing all the way to the bank.
maybe their collars are too tight !
maybe they have chillies in their boardrooms, or maybe they have found the the Achilles heel in your psyche and they are relishing the thought of how they put one over you and are going on about the demographics and the target markets and blah, blah, blah, and the interesting point about all of this is that whatever one wants is for free, and what the most rewarding is, is for free.
it is just a matter of extending oneself in the direction of the inner self and not the inside of one's pocket.
now, what were the odds again ?
do you chose your life or do you let the life chose you ?
do your senses lead you or are you being pulled by the fake nose ring ?
are those the fake wants and the fake thoughts that someone has planted and conditioned you to think ?
does the name Pavlov ring a bell ?
does it make you bark and salivate ?
what are the odds on that ?
probably you thought that you were a man's man or a woman's woman or a boy-girl or a girl-boy.
does this really make a difference to anyone who has a heart and a soul ?
what are the odds of meeting a real human being or an impostor ?
that is up to you to figure out.
there is a probability on both sides but the one outweighs the other.
which one is all in the way that you are wired and see the universe.
when was the last time that you cried ?
where does it really hurt ?
are you playing the consummate joker in all of this ?
where is the path going anyway ?
do you really want to know ?
does it really matter ?
does anything matter ?
what are the odds and how would you like to play this game ?
do you ever consider on being authentic or is it just another word on a package in a supermarket ?
is it the truth that you seek or is it what you want to hear to make yourself feel comfortable ?
how comfortable are you anyway ?
what are the odds now ?
are they in your favour ?
are you still playing with the same dice that you got when you were ten years old ?
is it a sense of timing and the great question is, do you have to have a designer watch to tell the time ?do the finer things in life give you that patina of sophistication and one-upmanship ?
is it your transport from one place to another ?
does it mean that you have suddenly arrived at your destination ?
what is the emptiness that you feel gnawing away at your gut ?
you had better run out and get a prescription, take a vacation, take a mistress or a Latino lover, get some botox, plastic sculpting-----add on, to fill yourself up.
maybe it will help and maybe not.
you could always addict yourself to some designer drug of choice and feel the man made ecstasy.
isn't that a rush-----that makes you feel better already, and to top it all is one headlong dash, backwards, as the everything that you have accomplished, starts to disappear before your very own eyes, and then comes the detox, rehab and whatever-----that is if you are able to afford it----you are able to do it.
so now is the chance to really work out the odds on having blackened fish five nights in a row or getting some chili in your eyes.
when you are able to work out these odds, your life plan will have a certain amount of clarity and all will be smooth sailing, until you hit the next squall or bad weather patch.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
METAMORPHOSIS--FROM CATERPILLAR TO BUTTERFLY
THERE IS A CHANGE INVOLVED WHEN ONE HAS MADE THE LEAP FROM ONE STATE TO ANOTHER STATE.
THE LOSS OF THE OLD IDENTITY IS THE MINI DEATH AND THE SUBSEQUENT PLACE ONE FINDS ONESELF, IS AS A CHILD.
THE REBIRTH AND THE FEELING OF ALOOFNESS, A STRANGENESS FROM THE REST,
IS LIKE BEING IN SOME SORT OF DISLOCATED STATE.
THE MORE ONE LETS GO AND SURRENDERS, THE BETTER IT BECOMES.
SOMETIMES THE DREAMS THAT ONE HAS , ARE LIKE BEING IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE.
THERE IS THE QUIET TIME WHEN ONE DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
THIS IS THE TIME TO RECHARGE THE BATTERIES.
ONE SHOULD NEVER GO TOO FAR FROM THE SOURCE.
UNFORTUNATELY IN TODAY'S LIFE, THE SOURCE OF WHO ONE IS AND WHERE ONE COMES FROM IS OBSCURED BY THE GENERAL CHAOTICNESS AND BUSINESS OF LIVING IN TWO WORLDS.
THERE IS THE WORLD OF ILLUSION AND SURVIVAL AND THERE IS THE MAGNIFICENCE OF A WORLD OF UNIVERSALITY AND SPIRITUAL EMPOWERMENT.
THE QUEST IS TO FIND THE MIDDLE PATH BETWEEN THE TWO.
ONCE ONE HAS SURRENDERED A PART OF THE EGO, THE REST STARTS TO DIMINISH AND THE QUICKENING BECOMES EVIDENT.
WHEN ONE CAN FEEL THE INTANGIBLE BECOMING TANGIBLE, THEN ONE DOES NOT WANT TO GO BACK.
IN THIS PROCESS OF MORPHING AND METAMORPHOSIS, THE PEOPLE AROUND ONE SEEM AS STRANGERS AND ONE BECOMES THE OUTSIDER.
IN THIS PROCESS THERE IS A NEW FAMILY OUT THERE-----PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO HAVE BEEN TRANSPOSED AND MORPHED INTO NEW BEINGS.
YOU STARTED OFF AS A CHILD KNOWING WHO YOU WERE AND THEN YOU WERE IMPRINTED.
IT IS NOT THAT THE PROCESS OF IMPRINTING TOOK PLACE, IT IS UNAVOIDABLE.
IT IS WHAT YOU ULTIMATELY DO WITH IT THAT WILL AFFECT YOUR DESTINY AND THE ONE'S AROUND YOU.
TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO DELVE INTO ONE'S OWN PSYCHE AND TO REMOVE THE IMPRINTING AND CONDITIONING LAYER BY LAYER.
PEELING THE ONION OF ONE'S OWN LIFE EXPERIENCE AND UNIVERSE AND TO COME TO THE POINT IN ADULT LIFE WHERE THE CHILDLIKE SPIRIT IS REVEALED.
IT IS THEN AND ONLY THEN THAT ONE CAN BE CONNECTED TO THE SOURCE OF ONE'S OWN EXISTENCE AND THE EXISTENCE OF ALL ON THE PLANET.
THE ONENESS OF LIFE IS EVIDENT AND THE JOYOUSNESS AND JUBILATION IS WHAT IS ABLE TO EMANATE FROM THE INNER CORE.
THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT ONE STANDS ABOVE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING.
YOU STILL HAVE TO LIVE IN THE DUALITY AND SOMETIMES SCHIZOPHRENIA OF THE REALITY OF THE NOW.
TO LIVE IN THIS STATE AND TO LIVE YOUR SPIRITUALITY, MEANS THAT YOU CREATE
A FIELD INTO WHICH PEOPLE ARE DRAWN.
EACH ONE OF US HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE THE GODHEAD AND THE FOUNTAINHEAD IN OUR OWN LIVES.
EVERYTHING DOES START WITH OURSELVES AS WE ARE THE OPERATORS OF OUR OWN DESTINY AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO INFLUENCE POSITIVELY OTHERS AROUND US.
THE LOSS OF THE OLD IDENTITY IS THE MINI DEATH AND THE SUBSEQUENT PLACE ONE FINDS ONESELF, IS AS A CHILD.
THE REBIRTH AND THE FEELING OF ALOOFNESS, A STRANGENESS FROM THE REST,
IS LIKE BEING IN SOME SORT OF DISLOCATED STATE.
THE MORE ONE LETS GO AND SURRENDERS, THE BETTER IT BECOMES.
SOMETIMES THE DREAMS THAT ONE HAS , ARE LIKE BEING IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE.
THERE IS THE QUIET TIME WHEN ONE DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
THIS IS THE TIME TO RECHARGE THE BATTERIES.
ONE SHOULD NEVER GO TOO FAR FROM THE SOURCE.
UNFORTUNATELY IN TODAY'S LIFE, THE SOURCE OF WHO ONE IS AND WHERE ONE COMES FROM IS OBSCURED BY THE GENERAL CHAOTICNESS AND BUSINESS OF LIVING IN TWO WORLDS.
THERE IS THE WORLD OF ILLUSION AND SURVIVAL AND THERE IS THE MAGNIFICENCE OF A WORLD OF UNIVERSALITY AND SPIRITUAL EMPOWERMENT.
THE QUEST IS TO FIND THE MIDDLE PATH BETWEEN THE TWO.
ONCE ONE HAS SURRENDERED A PART OF THE EGO, THE REST STARTS TO DIMINISH AND THE QUICKENING BECOMES EVIDENT.
WHEN ONE CAN FEEL THE INTANGIBLE BECOMING TANGIBLE, THEN ONE DOES NOT WANT TO GO BACK.
IN THIS PROCESS OF MORPHING AND METAMORPHOSIS, THE PEOPLE AROUND ONE SEEM AS STRANGERS AND ONE BECOMES THE OUTSIDER.
IN THIS PROCESS THERE IS A NEW FAMILY OUT THERE-----PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO HAVE BEEN TRANSPOSED AND MORPHED INTO NEW BEINGS.
YOU STARTED OFF AS A CHILD KNOWING WHO YOU WERE AND THEN YOU WERE IMPRINTED.
IT IS NOT THAT THE PROCESS OF IMPRINTING TOOK PLACE, IT IS UNAVOIDABLE.
IT IS WHAT YOU ULTIMATELY DO WITH IT THAT WILL AFFECT YOUR DESTINY AND THE ONE'S AROUND YOU.
TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO DELVE INTO ONE'S OWN PSYCHE AND TO REMOVE THE IMPRINTING AND CONDITIONING LAYER BY LAYER.
PEELING THE ONION OF ONE'S OWN LIFE EXPERIENCE AND UNIVERSE AND TO COME TO THE POINT IN ADULT LIFE WHERE THE CHILDLIKE SPIRIT IS REVEALED.
IT IS THEN AND ONLY THEN THAT ONE CAN BE CONNECTED TO THE SOURCE OF ONE'S OWN EXISTENCE AND THE EXISTENCE OF ALL ON THE PLANET.
THE ONENESS OF LIFE IS EVIDENT AND THE JOYOUSNESS AND JUBILATION IS WHAT IS ABLE TO EMANATE FROM THE INNER CORE.
THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT ONE STANDS ABOVE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING.
YOU STILL HAVE TO LIVE IN THE DUALITY AND SOMETIMES SCHIZOPHRENIA OF THE REALITY OF THE NOW.
TO LIVE IN THIS STATE AND TO LIVE YOUR SPIRITUALITY, MEANS THAT YOU CREATE
A FIELD INTO WHICH PEOPLE ARE DRAWN.
EACH ONE OF US HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE THE GODHEAD AND THE FOUNTAINHEAD IN OUR OWN LIVES.
EVERYTHING DOES START WITH OURSELVES AS WE ARE THE OPERATORS OF OUR OWN DESTINY AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO INFLUENCE POSITIVELY OTHERS AROUND US.
THE DEVIL( X2) AND THE DRAGON
AN APT LOCATION TO PLACE THE TWO DEVILS AND THE DRAGON---- ABOVE A CHIMNEY.
DISLOCATED IN THE PRECISENESS
stolen conversations, different lives, a part of the same life, a different facet, minute signs signalling, layers beneath layers, unpeeling and unravelling, seeing what can be seen, but is not, seeing beyond seeing, complacent visions brought to life, mundane with the interesting, the taken for granted with the intensity of in your face, the visual , the visceral, the residues and the knowledge of shape, form and appearance, the reality of the unreality, the unreality of the perceived reality, the juxtaposition of the elements, the magic of their composition, the integrity of their stature, the malevolence of the duality of darkness, the aura of energy transponding on a different plane, the sacrifice, the bemused conviviality, the impermanence of the beast, the core of being, the attention deficit, the undulating wayfarer wandering on a path of discovery, the amazement of the sights, the shallowness of being, the emotionality of the issues, the insight of nature, locking and loading, setting one's sights, moving of the parameters, answering to oneself, fidgeting unconsciously, seeing the magnificence, journeying into the unknown, making it known ,communicating on all levels, changing the faces, engaging the depths, sharing the depths, touching infinity, going beyond,making possibilities, postulating the extreme, living the way and finally moving with the flow.
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Sunday, September 2, 2007
Saturday, September 1, 2007
IN THE FLICKERING MADNESS.......
when the light of the candle flickers in the night, illuminating the many images on the wall, enmeshed and imbued with an energy that overwhelms in it's warmth, directing it creatively, soothing the sou;, stimulating the grey matter, then with the warmth of an open log fire, playing with the shadows on the wall, as the giant nasturtiums stand aloof in their mini jungle, their leaves with open palms, outstretched in the cool night air, as their buds stand like colourful sentinels, directing traffic, while there bis a dull hum all around the senses, which are hushed into an expectant silence, where all that takes place, cuts to the bone, distending itself like a fat bloated carcass, felled on a dry savanna, reaching into the core of the soil and lulling it into a warm gentle submission, as the wind carefully caresses the thorn bushes, as the foliage works itself together in a wave of applause and it is in that moment, all is a possibility and everything is one.
WHAT IS IT THAT YOU HEAR IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT.......2
are there the golden sounds of silence playing out to you, as the floorboards creek under the weight of a vase filled with spring flowers, glowing in the rays of the moonlight, overlooking a beach, touched with the footprints of strangers, with their personalities cast aside into the anonymity of the deserted carnival,which betrays the quietness with it's sweet candy fun of frivolity,as the screams of exhilaration drown out the crickets and dominate the airwaves,for what seems like an eternity, then and only then, do the shadows recede into the dark recesses of an alternative,which at the beginning was too difficult to understand or contemplate,until the serenity washed over one and the waves spilt their salted breeze onto a watchful pair of eyes, lost in a reverie of imagined reality and real imagination, as the bells of the campanile rang out in the celebration of life.
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