11/15/2023

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I would like to have had a Taoist sage
as a mediation leader during the school day
from the forth grade through college graduation.
That would have been helpful.  

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Joseph Campbell said during one of his
video taped lectures
that the old Tibetan Yogis
as stated in the Tibetan Book of the Dead
were of the opinion 
that at the point of death
we transition back into the light
from which we came,
and that our tendency will be to withdraw
and try to escape,
but that we must overcome that inclination
and, instead, leap into the light
as those glad to be home.
And they would urge us to practice that
leap into the light
as a daily ritual
so that we might be ready when the time comes.

Albert Einstein theorized
that energy cannot be created or destroyed,
only transformed or converted. 
Squares up with death not being the end of life-energy,
merely the transition point
for transformation/conversion.

03

We are the ones who have to make it happen.
No one can do it for us.
We have to know what's what
and what is called for in each situation as it arises
by being present and aware of what is present with us
and what needs to be done about it,
in response to it.

We are the active agents in the service
of a good beyond our good
through all of the circumstances of our life. 

We live in the service of what?

I say I am the servant of hermenutics,
of interpretation,
of right seeing,
right saying, 
of translation,
exposition,
evaluation,
analysis,
exploration,
investigation,
examination,
diagnosis,
depiction...

Of getting to the bottom of things,
seeking to know what's what
and what's to be done about it.

And you?

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