12/10/16 No record necessary
Snowy, sunny, cold, having trouble with orientation. Insisting on doing.
There must be another way of living, of seeing Life beyond the human construction. The mystery is whole and we within human thought are delusions of separateness. Within thought, the drama is very real and we want to be in control. Each of us has an accumulated identity and a perceived responsibility to play that role. Or so we have all learned. Maybe it’s not true. And maybe our sense of doing and becoming is nothing besides thought.
Life moves as a cloud, changing and dissipating as it goes. The past is no more and what has happened only a record, images within thought. Sure some remnants remain, personal fossils, some attempts at keeping things solid – books, artwork, all of the architecture of doing. We know where we have been. But only partially, most experience has been edited out, lost without knowing - uncollected data, videos not shot, pictures not taken, experience not recorded in words or images.
But the record keeping is our bias, our pretense of control. Life doesn’t need to be recorded, to be caught in the net of memory. It flows, unfolds, generates without thought, without memory. The way of Life includes the human element but is not dependent on our participation. This should be humbling and allow us to see the difference between the human social construction and the larger space of Life. It is a gift to be included, but there are some rules to the party and if we ignore them we will be dis-invited and certainly suffer the consequences of our own actions.
To tease this apart is endlessly difficult, as we keep finding our roles of identity to be too real and we believe who we are playing ourselves to be. Life recedes as the stage setting – a place to walk through, to play within. When in actuality our roles are unimportant and we exist only as Life, generated from Life and changing as Life. We enter and exit in Life’s relationship. And we as knowing beings know little about the mystery that is creating and sustaining our physical and conscious presence.
Perhaps it would benefit us to embrace our ignorance, our inability to know the mystery that we are, to really find that place where we have nothing to say and nothing to control and nothing to do. To be quiet and watch as Life unfolds within us and around us.
(Image: The Age of Amusement)
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