#26 tragic-comedy
human stupidity is tragic and comedic and real in ways that are akin to you or me hitting ourselves on the head with a hammer and justifying it or repeatedly walking into a brick wall and suggesting to others it’s a great new way to be healthy or as in a laurel and hardy movie where they dig a tunnel from their prison cell and successfully pop up in the prison yard or to actually believe that most of our politicians and corporate leaders have human well being as their priority or that all our fellow species do not experience fear and suffering or that the mainstream media are independent or that the human masses are not brainwashed into virtual slaves or that we actually believe that many who reveal the truth are crazy conspiracy theorists and so it goes on and the first signs of awakening to this tragic comedy is an uncomfortable questioning of what our minds have been fed since we emerged into the external world and the second sign is to do rigorous research and learn to think for oneself and then to find ways to translate the truths discovered into one’s personal and social life and then to connect with others who are also waking up and then maybe we shall collectively turn the tide and co create a world full of care beauty love kindness harmony justice peace and wisdom
#27 spiritual sun
a new moment arrives in every moment now as a movement everlasting in an omnipresence of self-expression never ceasing even amidst its silent choosings that are intervals in a timeless paradox and yet consciousness awakened to this living mystery of identity beyond temporary form or name continues striving to fulfil its secret promise and vision hidden deep within soul awaiting alchemical maturity that would be as a seed bursting its shell and finally meeting the warmth of the sun together with the nectar rain that coincides with an ancient memory of astounding beauty that now enlivens refreshes glorifies its own evolutional mission seeded at the outset of an entelechy imprinted and encoded to reach its cosmic and human destiny in a grace filled experience that collapses the worn out futile paradigm and recalibrates every living cell into a reborn mystery play that resounds with calm and joy which however must be wilfully returned to whenever the soul forgets temporarily for here is the power and the glory beyond shallow intellectualism and false pride waiting always for the return home of the loved child of the cosmos
#28 critical thinking
critical thinking does not mean being critical in one’s thinking but rather questioning everything and investigating whether something is true or false real or illusory and so on and a truly scientific critical thinking would not allow biased influences or unclean forces to infiltrate their researches or experiments but unfortunately a pure type of critical thinking is sadly lacking in today’s world culture for numerous reasons for instance the average person has become lazy in thinking and overly passive in receiving the hypnotic influences of a social media that itself lacks critical thinking and indeed relies on the masses not engaging in critical thinking and so this has become an age of mass suggestion and influenced or even controlled by forces of greed power-lust consumerism economic tyranny and a wanton loss of respect and care for the environment and our sentient relatives and critical thinking would therefore actually be a rebellious counterforce to this global psychological and sociological tyranny and fortunately such counterforces that do actually actualise critical thinking do exist in the arts and among courageous individuals
#29 universal truth
is there a truth that is so objective that is cannot be reasonably refuted and if there is it surely would have to be self-evident to anyone one who is capable of thinking in a realistic and honest way therefore such a truth would be universally axiomatic and what might that truth be and it is at this point that language itself becomes a most interesting focus because a universally valid truth would still be able to be expressed in many different ways for example a self-evident truth expressed with the words I am could be linguistically opposed by a perspective that the I does not exist and that the word presence is a more appropriate word and we are led to the uncomfortable realisation that language itself cannot be universally axiomatic but then a further step in the investigation might reveal a wonderful truth that is not universally valid but nonetheless is true for me which is that the purpose of language at a higher level of usage is to enjoy the variability of the universal truth of individuality in free expression and in this perhaps universal and personal merge in an objectivity that language can only point to and at that point we could co-exist peacefully respectfully and with a lightness of being so ultimately a truth that is so objective that it cannot be refuted is more about a way of being together and more about how we care for our world and other living beings than about language but because human beings do not act in uniformity so the only truth that is objectively universal belongs to source itself regardless of what name we give IT
30: hocokah
the greatest truth is beyond personal thinking with its preferred ideas limited range of subjective experience and understanding but unfortunately the lack of humbly acknowledging this truth leads to stubborn conflicts and adversarial antagonisms but this can be countered by developing the capacity of deep listening whence we transcend our tendencies to feel and think of our own views as the center and rather allow the center to be whoever is sharing and this has been an experimental process for some years following my induction into the lakota tradition of hocokah which is a talking and listening circle whereby each person in the circle in sequence gets to hold a talking stick and no one is allowed to interrupt and the idea is to allow each person to express in safety and not attack anyone’s else’s views and my dear friends this has proven to be very effective in obvious and not so obvious ways because learning how to deeply listen to another is transformative in itself with this indicating how we need to relate to each other in a future world in which life will be honoured and humanly inflicted suffering a thing of the past and as much as this may appear overly idealistic we have no reason to not orient ourselves towards this vision
