Discourse 14: A Return to the Cavern...

[The Commander]

Riff and I have a friend named Podge who had a chicken fetish.  He would use the word "chicken" every chance he got.

Most Common Catch Phrase being "Awwwwwww CHICKEN!"

The Commander
DIA

[riff]

Podge was hilarious... "Breakdance like a chicken on fire!"

And he named his cat 'Seeayetee' - "It's Spanish for 'cat'!"

Commander, do you remember when Podgewatchnight is?

[Penumbral]

I dont.

[riff]

You don't??  Good heavens!  

Well, at least you know when Salaimasta is, right??

[Penumbral]

Well DUHH!!!

[riff]

And the Festival of St. Olaf?

[Penumbral]

Erm ummm well....

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

I agree with Trollax...
My response is coming after I recover from the clouds of pipe tobacco smoke now blocking my view of this screen.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Sometimes I think that the cavern walls are made out of our present media distractions such as TV, Radio, and *gasps* the Internet. It's like Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's 'cocoon' in "Shambhala". We surround ourselves with all sorts of trappings, including Discordian thoughts, in attempts to show how original and unique we are. Yet we are just building a cocoon. We don't want to see the outside at all as that would take too much effort and there's "always another time" to get back to it. It seems as if we don't bother with breaking out of the cocoon/cavern because it takes more work than mouse-double-clicking.

I left the cavern/cocoon long ago and dedicated myself to living underneath the vast sky of reality, whether I'd ever understand it or not. But the startling thing is that I still have the habitual tendencies to build up other cocoons around myself. I have to be constantly diligent, mindful of the fact that I could use new materials to make a new cavern, and trap myself yet again. The Buddhists say that Awakening is a process, a way of being, and not a goal to attain. Now I am learning all too well the implications of that for my own life.

Way to go, Trollax! Keep up the writing. I am enjoying the thoughts and what they provoke inside my own mind.

*claps*

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Bump for poorly organized, badly written, pseudointellectual angst.

[Dimocritus]

I left the cavern/cocoon long ago and dedicated myself to living underneath the vast sky of reality, whether I'd ever understand it or not. But the startling thing is that I still have the habitual tendencies to build up other cocoons around myself. I have to be constantly diligent, mindful of the fact that I could use new materials to make a new cavern, and trap myself yet again. The Buddhists say that Awakening is a process, a way of being, and not a goal to attain. Now I am learning all too well the implications of that for my own life.

Perhaps you are not rebuilding your cave, maybe you are just in a cave that's in a cave that's in a cave that's in a cave that's in a cave that's in a cave that's in a cave that's in a cave that's in a cave ......