Apr 25, 2020
Focus on the issues, speak the directly to the truth of things regardless of the current trend towards muting our observations in favor of being polite and silent.
For example crime is wrong, not just in a narrow legal sense, we know wrongdoing when we encounter it, laws are reflections of these deeper, primal connections to what we instinctively know.
I know it when i see trials of senseless murders that we do the best we can as a society to punish but we must encounter the cultural process of creating and accepting what i call "bullshit"
such as generational crime culture, escapism, drugs, alcoholism, pride of ignorance and distrust of education and work. I even include violent video games where thumbs press buttons to kill virtual people.
I feel powerful hate for the drug dealers that sell junk to idiot kids and stupid adults.These pushers take a willful role in their clients un-virtual deaths. I also no believe that the desire to escape and numb reality is at the heart of most suffering in the forms of broken homes, unemployment, ignorance and crime.
I also sense some antidote in the embracing of moment to moment goodness and connection to the body and mind thru health, communion and learning.
In short criminality is often avoidable and most people engage in it willingly for short term profit of some kind. I learned not to think this way partially thru guitar playing as you can't purchase or steal being able to do it.
I thought i taught my son right from wrong, good from bad. He certainly made me believe he knew. And yet here i am. without him and watching a trail of deaths continue. I know its complex but i also know we all lose once drugs are the reason for the breakdown.So i commit to fighting against the bullshit, escapist, crime-glorifying, selfish culture that permits, excuses, predates upon or excuses the poisoning of the self.
Lastly i know now that none of us is a separate thing, we are attached in a network, even deeper we are all one organism, thus to poison, abuse or neglect the self is tantamount to harming everyone else. We each have a responsibility to create a healthy, meaningful life as it is what we cause for everything.
For me being nobody frees me to speak from my deepest ability, untied to self-worship and fear.