"Perfect is the man who knows what comes from heaven and what comes from man . Knowing what comes from heaven, he is in tune with heaven . Know what comes from man, he uses his knowledge of of the known to develop his knowledge of the unknown and enjoys the fullness of life until his natural death ."
The Inner Chapters Chuang Tsu
Chapter Six The Great Master
These words ARE my Heart and Soul --- they bond me to the Infinite .
Plutarch writes of Cato the Elder "
"But a man who observed the ancestral custom of working his own land, who was content with a cold breakfast, a frugal dinner, the simplest clothing, and a humble cottage to live in, and who actually thought it admirable to renounce luxuries than to acquire them----such a person was conspicuous by his own rarity ."
I LOVE Plutarch and ADMIRE Cato the Elder .
I wish I could promise that I won't use deception to deliver a message ... I'm not that guy BUT , I WILL try to stay Honest, Level and Plumb and keep to the tag "Even Stephen" . I an HUGELY dependent upon Superior Others and their Eloquence and Elegance to transmit Teachings that are both difficult and complex . Please forgive an old man .
I need to establish a "base line", a Foundation from which all >Else< flows . From this Foundation is one of my Essentials :
"Nevertheless, every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, TO A RESTRICTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS . Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come to late . The whole sense of the ubiquitous myth of the hero's passage is that it shall serve as a general pattern for men and women, wherever they may stand along the scale . Therefore it is formulated in the broadest terms . The Individual has only to discover his own position with reference to this general human formula, and let it then assist him past his restricting walls . Who and where are his ogres ? Those are the reflections of the unsolved enigmas of his own humanity . What are his ideals ?? Those are the symptoms of his grasp of life ."
Problems seek solutions . The Problem in America is its present Trajectory toward Democracy ANNIHILATION. The SOLUTION IS >>>CHANGE<<< . It can be stated that Individuals who wittingly or UN-wittingly conform to the Status Quo or Society (and for that matter Civilization) must be introduced or RE-introduced to CHANGE >>>>FOR THE BETTER<<<< . Nothing is-gonna happen unless the MAJORITY of Citizens commit to CHANGE ----->FIRST !
I must save the Scrutiny of this CHANGE for future blogs .
Presently, the Goal of my Effort is to supply Intellectual Conditions that as as ITS Goal the Health of ind and Body and CRUCIALLY the RIGOROUS Health of Heart and SOUL. I believe a Clear Mind and Pure Soul have n EVOLUTIONARY Trajectory toward Goodness --- where Goodness must remain UNDEFINED so that it can express the Universal Mystery of SPIRIT (in Biblical terms, "the Breath of Life") .
Logic and Reasoning provide these conclusions : A health society produces a healthy Individual and its opposite; an UN healthy society produces UN-healthy Individuals .
Since we KNOW that there are MANY unhealthy Individuals we cannot avoid the FACT that Society is UN-Healthy .
Captain Obvious strikes again .
It is IMPERATIVE to try and understand that the Laws of Karma are responsible not only for the Birth of Individuals but necessarily their ability to receive the Teachings and then comply with their Exactions . Ya-wanna think and even BELIEVE that being born into Wealth is GOOD Karma as well as GOOD Fortune . Observing trump should temper that Thinking . We are experiencing every bot of trump's Negative (BAD) Karma . OBVIOUSLY, had he been born into Poverty "things" would be VASTLY different . Zen can be seen here : "He is what he is because of his Karma", which can be simplified to something strikingly tautological, he is what he is BECAUSE he is what he is . Ain't no Satisfaction here .
CLEARLY , trump is UN-Healthy, both in Body and Mind and many of us will argue his Soul {if indeed he even HAS a Soul} is in the Cosmic Cesspool . Using the tern, Un-healthy is generously romantic. Elsewhere I have vehemently insisted that trump is a "SICK FUCK" a parlance from the Street and Gutter, used to describe a someone known to have exercised criminal perversion . Is it then "self-evident" that ALL his voters are "SICK FUCKS" as well ?? If we suggest that trump is mentally ILL, can we then add that his voters are mentally ILL "
No we cannot .
Do I WANT to ??? FUCK YEAH!!
