Rant 23: Morgenheutegesternwelt?

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

RANT 23
Morgenheutegesternwelt

?¨And so at last get OUT.?Æ
-Aleister Crowley

?¨Existence is the great indulgence. Anything less than this, any attempt to avoid part of oneself is to invite loss of form, a self-negation leading to a shrinkage of spirit.?Æ
-Peter J. Carroll

?¨Beware of God. She is ODD.?Æ
--Tequilarius Malignatus

Whoever said that time is of the essence was lying. Time is of nothing but figments of our overactive imaginations. Even this could be a lie. Beyond both hope and fear lies the key to attaining your desires. Beyond attachment and aversion lies the possibility of freedom. There are worlds beyond number beyond the horizon of your stretched perceptions. Everyone has an idea or a theory about the nature of existence but the ones who really explore it are the ones who disbelieve all ideas. Why do you dream when you sleep? Because you would die otherwise.

A writer wrote once that the only way to fully comprehend an idea is to know the circumstances in which the idea is not true. In that vein, the only way to fully understand existence is to contemplate non-existence?ñif such a thing could be contemplated. Both existence and non-existence are ideas and labels we give to phenomena. And even this is not true.

Who better to understand existence than yourself? Who can misunderstand it worse than yourself? Truth is just a word we use for something that agrees with our perceptions. What is really happening? What is really being said? We all have ideas. But so what? Ideas can be changed just as easily as perceptions can be manipulated. How many of you have really seen the sunrise without muddling it by thinking ?´Wow. What a beautiful sunrise!??? Describe the taste of water.

Laughter is the surest way to banish all effects of so-called karma. You don??t believe me? Try it for yourself. Or are you afraid to live without the dogma of karma? If life held any secrets, then how do you think you could ever learn them? Karma, enlightenment, love, truth, reason, emotion, peace, bliss, war, lies, intelligence?ñAll of these and more are just figments of our imagination. Laughter is at the center of all sacred mandalas. It is the impression and motivation of living a centered existence beyond both hope and fear. If you believe that the opposite of laughter is crying, you are mistaken. Laughter??s opposite is laughter. You are the mystery that you impute life with.

Prepare the Ways for the anti-State of Laughter! Shout down the Crapscreamers who unwittingly demonstrate their misunderstanding of life??s mystery by claiming they understand. Your ideas and beliefs can only tell you about how you think about the world and will not help you to know the world. Peel them away and you will find that life continues?ñwithout need for beliefs or ideas?ñwithout the notion of a self?ñwithout the idea of a god?ñwithout the perception of truth?ñwithout the fantasy of meaning?ñlife continues.

Both nihilism and essentialism are twin sticky traps of the mind. Likewise all other dualities?ñlove and hate?ñdesire and aversion?ñfear and hope?ñblame and fame?ñfuture and past?ñanger and rapture?ñpain and pleasure?ñelation and depression?ñsex and death?ñaggression and passion. Not one of these could exist without the other. Freedom is being able to sail the ocean of chaos through all of them. Denying none of them. Accepting all of them. Burning all of them up in the fiery heart of awareness. Herein lies the energy at the heart of Tantra and other systems of wisdom. The dakinis laugh at the notions of sanity with which you try to maintain the dualities. Ha!

If you wish to see your future, look at yourself now. If you wish to know your past, look at yourself now. How can you know ?´IN?? if you have not been ?´OUT??? How can you know ?´OUT?? if you have not been ?´IN??? Likewise satisfaction and frustration. Likewise truths and lies. Likewise day and night. Prefer one or the other, if you must, but know that it is your preference. Follow the call of your heart towards some things and not others, but know that it is your own calling.

?¨Things are not as they seem, nor are they otherwise.?Æ
-Tantric saying

Realize that if you are mistaken it is because you chose to be. The past, present, or future will not help you, until you see that they are just ideas after all. The black heart of innocence that is the ground luminosity of all life can only be glimpsed by a mind unattached to notions. Perception is who you think you are and can be changed as many times as you wish. Tomorrow-today-yesterday?ñthis-otherwise-that?ñhere-anywhere-there?ñIt is all a dance. Start dancing.

(Aftermath 50th, 3169 / December 8th, 2003)

[Trollax]

*DANCES*

Because I'm not wearing any socks and that is a cosmic occurence in some parts of the galaxy

[Slarti]

WOWSERS

[Horab Fibslager]

cheers.

[Bella]

BRAVO, Hugh.