WEEK 1:
I wake up and I look around, and wonder, where is our wisdom? How many epochs of grandparents, babies, fathers, mothers, brothers, neighbors have there been? Yet we have no tangible tools to live well by. No output of healthy, whole societies. No cessation of suffering. No grace of movement. Do we live to learn to die and relearn the same lessons, foolishly chasing an incomplete dream?
We all live as motherless children. Making big messes and crying so very loud because its all so wrong, and like children, we don't know how to fix it. We need a wise one, and a wise way to live on, atop the surface of a iron and oxygen planet, common elements in the known universe, hurling away from every given object at the rate of six hundred thousand kilometers per second, like this.
We need to loosen our concepts of how we understand the "real world" in order to gain real wisdom. We need far more contemplation and awe at just this state of being that we find ourselves in. The scope of everything, the meaning of every day, every breathe, is so much greater than we daily realize.
And what of time?
How insignificant we may seem, but how absolutely life affirming that we are here right this very second, and that we do know, to some extent, the scope of time, space, and consciousness, enough anyway, to be wide-eyed awestruck.
WEEK 2:
Perhaps a more intimate discourse would illuminate, to cast light on areas bathed in shadow. We must live in this now, for we are here. We must shed ideologies, and these simplistic grids of understanding, that will never and can never contain the subtle forms of nature, that give us the illusion of safety. We must shine out a new way forth, for what other way can there be?
A lot of these videos are of some length, rather than start at the beginning, I suggest watching a random slice at a time.
Notice how the deeper you look, the more the natural world provides this answer, that there is no one way, no fixed, no static, no rock of truth. But, this does not loose us wisdom. For this may be the wisdom we are under search for, if indeed we are in search. What can be taught, oh natural world?
There exists an ethnosphere. A swath of beautiful extrapolations of the human theme, that can, if we are of a curious mind, expand our own concept of self. For isn't there so much more than what we have been told, in every dimension?
WEEK 3:
There also exists, real world, tried and true, fundamental knowledge of this seemingly unknowable experience. The most practical and alien, to the Western mind's concepts of life, living, and dying, can be gleaned from our "other", the Eastern Way. Taoism, Buddhism, Zen, Mystic Sects, have so much to say, about the daily living, of human beings.
Yet still, we live in a fashion. A passing fade with all the confidence of a teenager.
WEEK 5:
Strange, isn't it, that we know all this, yet we live in a world where we allow for millions of people, to live all alone, isolated on the streets, scrounging. Boxed slaves are imprisoned by the million. So called, mentally ill, whom could just as easily be called the mentally visionary, are treated as inconveniences, as we skirt on in self important ways, ignoring the real in pursuit of the fake. Youth and seniors alike are squandered and shelved as insignificant pre and post consumers. And war provides us waste: people, animals, minerals, grass, soil, trees, rivers and energy be damned.
Well surely the rock of truth is America the Great, no?. For we are all told that this country stands as the great light of the world, and of the very fate of people-hood. But so quickly does history teach us a different truth. The lesson that is unfortunately inconsistent with what we've been told, is that these men of lore, their words, their ways, fall far short of respectable, acceptable patterns of behavior.
War has rippled on for far too long? But, perhaps we don't focus enough on the destruction of human ways. Our direct focus flits past, like those aforementioned homeless, we know, we know, but look away. No, we must look directly into the consequence of the modern man's ways, to know, that this cannot be the way. The examples are more numerous than scarce.
WEEK 6:
In our daily living we must carry, transmit, and receive direct experience. There may be systems, but systems are not it. It is it.
There is no container that will hold the answer, the answer is improvised, every time. But to improvise free from weak, inherited, and incomplete models of thinking, language, and behavior, is the only way to play the "right" notes. For the game is upon us, we must play, but shall we follow the real "rules", or make up interpretive systems that distort and confuse the ever shifting drama?
Language, systems, technology, science, institutions can be the masters of your individual experience, or the servants, but currently, they shape you, they shape us, not the other way around. There are better systems, there are real solutions, but you must begin to transmit the change now. The only other option, is passive acceptance of the Foolish Way, only to pass on your passive acceptance to your children, and theirs.
WEEK 7:
