Duress in Duration

                                                           Student Protests in Europe have ignited a "Signal" of the Past, the so-called "Arab Spring" of 2010 to 2012 .   SOME Satisfaction was experienced, but are the Arab-Speaking Nations under FULL Democracy Rule ???   2 words :   Nope .   

                             Students and Concerned Citizens are Protesting governments that have REFUSED to recognize the Interests of us Commoners .   I want to express the Nature of NOW by describing a Time BEFORE >Now< where Conditions were deplorable but no one "had the guts to leave the Temple" .   Folks ate whatever SHIT the government 'fed' them up until NOW appeared as "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" , meaning,  WE'VE EATEN ALL THE FUCKING SHIT WE CAN STAND >>>>NOW<<<< "IT" 's gotta END .   

                             We say, "The Time is NOW" but implicit in this statement Declaration is what I raised earlier --->  Duration .   >NOW< must have  >Duration< .   

                             In America, Folks want Change NOW, and so they will Vote next Tuesday to get "NOW" initiated and implemented WHICH WILL TAKE MONTHS .  Look at "IT" :   >NOW< 'takes' MONTHS .   I beg my Gentle Readers DO NOT TURN AWAY FROM THIS .

 

"Deaf, Dumb and Blind" ...

                                                          I live in a Realm {of my own creation} where I am 'aware' of Telepathic Energies, what Zen Buddhists [Zen-ists] refer to as "Mind Energy" .   In the "Olden Days of Yesteryear" this Mind Energy was referred to as "ESP", that is, Extra-Sensory-Perception and folks of my Generation and earlier, either Believed in ESP or didn't .   Obviously, as I have just expressed, I DO .

                           After I finish writing, I allow myself to be receptive to these Energies which, by definition, are the Mind Transmissions of my Gentle Readers .   These days I have been unsettled, grouchy, and morose because of my own dys-satisfaction* with my Effort and the reception of Energies that are also dys-satisfied with my Out-put .   

                           There is an URGENCY for TRANSFORMATION  >>>>>NOW<<<<< and the Investigation and Study of Kiddie Lit does NOTHING to address the POLITICAL URGENCY that assails us presently .   I FEEL that URGENCY, I suspect WE ALL FEEL IT, but it is as if   TIME -Itself- is working AGAINST our Will .   The Election is almost grotesquely upon us, and Folks, who APPEAR as Common and Decent are still UN-DECIDED  on for whom they will vote .  

                          "IT" gets worse .

                            Some folks interviewed admitted they will WAIT until they are INSIDE the Voting booth to finally decide .   2 words :   wow .

Duration

                                                                       32.   Heng / Duration

                                     "Duration is  a state whose movement is not worn down by hindrances .   It is not a state of rest, for mere standstill is regression .  Duration is rather the self-contained and therefore self-renewing movement of an organized, firmly integrated whole, taking place in accordance of immutable laws and beginning anew at every ending .   The end is reached by an inward movement, by inhalation, systole, contraction, and this movement turns into a new beginning, in which the movement is directed outward, in exhalation, diastole, expansion .

                                      " Heavenly bodies exemplify Duration .  They move in their fixed orbits, and because of this their light-giving power endures .   The seasons of the year follow a fixed law of change and transformation, hence can produce effect that endure .  

                                        "So likewise the dedicated man embodies an enduring meaning in his way of life, and thereby the world is formed .   In that which gives things their Duration, we can come to understand the nature of all beings in heaven and on earth ."

Miss Stroke

                                                          Earlier I was writing about why folks lie, specific to american politics and the consequence of those lies with regard to polling and further down the road, the Mid-term Election .    I had half a screen lit up when, for some COSMIC reason or another, I hit a key or keys that deleted the entire blog, which then caused me to "tail spin" out of control .   I didn't recover, ---  I went outdoors to Zen Walk to regain my Center and figure out what the fuck had just happened .   Clearly the Universe saw fit to alter my trajectory :  tagging folks as Liars, Cheats, Scoundrels and Scalawags, dose nothing save to express anger, and dystrust* , somethings* unacceptable to Scholarship .   Name calling breaks all my Rules .   

                          When I returned to the Cave "IT" arrived :  I was SCARED .

                           I was Scared that the elections would not be  ---> Transformative, meaning, the democrats could win, but the margin would be so slim, that NOTHING would Change and Nothing COULD-BE Changed .   Labeling folks LIARS is an effort to protect myself from the abominable  DISAPPOINTMENT that america would remain in open cesspool of Corruption, Lies, and Deceit that has already manifested as trump's WAR .  

                          

Pharaoh's Legacy

                                                           Yesterday I spent NO 'Time' thinking abut this morning's topic {consideration} even after Fareed Zacharia's program some of which was devoted to Israel and the Quasi "EXTINCTION EVENT" of Palestinians, that is, Gazans and 'Bankers' .   Some say there is HOPE [I HATE HOPE] that the Ruling Sanhedrin of Israel [the Knesset] will "come to their Senses" and vote AGAINST netanyahu and his  SLAUGHTER MACNINE otherwise referred to as the IDF .   Israel has been  ||| divi  ded |||  just as america with support for a Solution to the Palestinian Problem that does NOT involve handing over Territories that would become the Nation of Palestine, and those who simply Demand the above mentioned EXTINCTION EVENT as the way to eliminate hamas at the expense of Innocents .   Is this Election to be a harbinger of things to come in america ?   

                            Most will argue that HAMAS will never be eliminated as long as iran has money and WILL .   Here  it is where the Civilian Populations of Iran, Israel, America, Saudi Arabia, and the majority of Arabic Speaking and Muslim Orientation DO NOT HAVE ANY POWER WHATSOEVER .   Those presently in POWER consider the Human Population of Innocents as >>>>>>> EXPENDABLE .   If the People "die off" due to governmental policies, so be it .  Those in POWER will always have their needs met, for the most part, with LAVISH construction .    

                                                   "Of what need do the poor have for food ?"     

Balance

                                                           In the Same Way that we don't get better by playing individuals and teams that have inferior [less developed} skills than we, so it is with Scholarship as well .   If we are to 'advance' our Understanding(s), then we must read materials that are "over our heads" .   Reading such Material is a fucking CHALLENGE but we MUST resign ourselves to undertake this Challenge as  means of Self-Development, especially those of us who seek Planetary {Cosmic} Consciousness .   In my Senior years I have taken to find Balance in my reading .  Presently I am wading {trudging, slogging} through Adam Smith's   THE WEALTH OF NATIONS,,, I can do so because I managed the same kind of slog with Thomas Piketty's CAPITAL .   It's not that I HATE Economics, it's just that I don't like it because I SUCK at it .   It's weird because I didn't find THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO a trudge at all .   I FORCE myself to read at least for half an hour before I get to my (True) Love, Kiddie Lit and Aesop's Fables .   "A spoonful of sugar help the medicine go down" . 

                             If you DO undertake the Reading of HAMLET'S MILL it mite* behoove you to read some Myths for balance .   

"Hamlet's Mill"

                                                            It may be that I have inadvertently offended my Gentle Readers by suggesting they enter the Realm of Children's Literature ("Kiddie Lit") .   If so, I apologize .   Every tribe, every hamlet, every village has their own Stories of Creation, [Myths] as well as Stories, Fables and Tales that supply their offspring with the Values, Morals, Mores and Ethos that is the foundation of their own Social Reality, hence my desire to communicate a ONE-NESS of Global Civilization .   It occurred to me yesterday afternoon, that Folks consider Kiddie Lit somehow 'beneath' them, and I understand that ;   to these Folks I offer the Study of Myth(s) because Myths supply those Very Same but for an Adult Appetite .    

                               Dr. Joseph Campbell is considered the PRE-EMMINENT SCHOLAR of Mythology and I  STRONGLY Recommend the following :   THE MASKS OF GOD   ORIENTAL MYTHOLOGY ;  THE MASKS OF GOD   CREATIVE MYTHOLOGY ;   THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES .   However, there is one text that is at the Apex of the Study of Myth and it is :   HAMLET'S MILL  AN ESSAY INVESTIGATING THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND ITS TRANSMISSION THROUGH MYTH .    It is written by Giorgio De Santillana and Hertha von Dechend .   "IT", the Text, is of INESTIMABLE  Value .   

                               This from the back cover :   "Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose poser and accuracy were suppressed and then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view .  This fascinating book throws into doubt the self-congratulatory assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development and transmission of knowledge .  This is a truly seminal and original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two ."

                             This TEXT aint for the squeamish , it is DAUNTING .