April 16, 2024

01

We're hanging by a thread.

Look around.

Everybody you see is hanging by a thread.

It was the same in Jesus' day.
"They are like sheep without a shepherd,"
he said.
"Come to me, you who are weak
and heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

The rest he offered was a change of mind,
a shift in perspective.

The same thing the Buddha offered
with his "release from suffering."
A different way of looking at things.

But the bills and the hunger, etc.
don't go away.

And that is the catch
in what all the prophets have to say.

The bills and the hunger, etc.
don't go away.

And everyone still hangs by a thread
when all the prophets have left the scene.

What do we do about the thread?
That's the question.
The thread is infinite and eternal,
everlasting,
without end.

All there is is us and our relationship
with the thread.

And the Wailing Wall.

Deliverance is always a generation away.
In the meantime,
there are bread and circuses.
And the thread. 
And the Wailing wall.
And the waiting for deliverance
which is always coming.

Our hope is always in that 
which is coming.

In the meantime...

02

There is Woke.

And there is Denial.

Those are the choices.

If we aren't Woke
and working to become Woker,
we are encased in Denial.

Choose your cause
and step into the fray. 

03

We do it for the sake doing it makes
in our own life.
If it weren't for us,
where would we be?
"We are all we got!
We are all "we need!"
(With the "we" understood to be
all of us together.
WE are all we got!
WE are all we need!).

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