Sorry, it's been a while.
Much of my thoughts are about spirituality, understanding our world through sight as much as through past thought - though I do not trust thoughts like I did. There are the mind-crayons of intelligence though we often think they are not. They are the least of what the mind is capable of because they propose things are right or wrong, good or bad - and as time passes we realize the world was never so simple as to be cast into the binary heaven or hell concept. Children write with such simplicity. There are so many more rooms to fill, so many more levels to understand about human nature.
And then like so many of my thoughts I realized I was wrong. I know, I am shocked as well and can still barely stand.
But now I can see it clearly: Men are always in a state of goodness, even if it means to steal, even if it means to kill. Think about how you work on a personal level. Have you ever done something wrong when you did not need to? I'm not talking about a drug induced drama- that is not thought at all as much as chemical control. I am talking about thoughtful action. We think in terms of right and wrong but even when we do something wrong, we simultaneously believe circumstance demands it be this way, that somehow our action is a form of correction. We see this in the disenfranchised population and those without hope. Consequently, even when we do wrong we seek balance.
In fact, even those mentally ill seek rightness and balance, only to an inner reality much different than ours. If we lived within their psychosis - we would probably be doing the same things we see them oddly doing. In this way the man is not insane as much as he is reacting sanely to an insane understanding of reality.
The conclusion in my mind is man is not broken. He is misinformed and needs to see the world in a new way. He is beauty guided by misconception.
Just a thought.
Have a wonderful night.
Gregory K. Cadotte
The Dancing Buddah
Much of my thoughts are about spirituality, understanding our world through sight as much as through past thought - though I do not trust thoughts like I did. There are the mind-crayons of intelligence though we often think they are not. They are the least of what the mind is capable of because they propose things are right or wrong, good or bad - and as time passes we realize the world was never so simple as to be cast into the binary heaven or hell concept. Children write with such simplicity. There are so many more rooms to fill, so many more levels to understand about human nature.
And then like so many of my thoughts I realized I was wrong. I know, I am shocked as well and can still barely stand.
Maybe there are no rooms at all - which means we are all in the same room - the same state again and again. Perhaps we are in a single state of Goodness. I know, crazy right?
But now I can see it clearly: Men are always in a state of goodness, even if it means to steal, even if it means to kill. Think about how you work on a personal level. Have you ever done something wrong when you did not need to? I'm not talking about a drug induced drama- that is not thought at all as much as chemical control. I am talking about thoughtful action. We think in terms of right and wrong but even when we do something wrong, we simultaneously believe circumstance demands it be this way, that somehow our action is a form of correction. We see this in the disenfranchised population and those without hope. Consequently, even when we do wrong we seek balance.
In fact, even those mentally ill seek rightness and balance, only to an inner reality much different than ours. If we lived within their psychosis - we would probably be doing the same things we see them oddly doing. In this way the man is not insane as much as he is reacting sanely to an insane understanding of reality.
The conclusion in my mind is man is not broken. He is misinformed and needs to see the world in a new way. He is beauty guided by misconception.
Just a thought.
Have a wonderful night.
Gregory K. Cadotte
The Dancing Buddah
