VIVA LA DEATH!
IT’S NOT EASY...
to be a true outlaw, an outlaw down to your very core. If you are, I feel for you because i know you must subvert all paradigms and rebel against all and each belief. As soon as you have revolted and destroyed the dominant belief, a new belief takes it’s place and then of course because your job, like it or not, is to rebel-you must take down the newly established belief This makes no sense unless you believe that life is supposed to change perpetually. That the universe is always under going transformation and we lag behind trying desperately to hold on to what we think we know and what we think will provide us with safety and security. Inevitably, soon or later-once again we recognize that there is a new belief system that constrains us as ALL
belief systems do.
Are you a true rebel? Do you live your life freely and unpredictably? Are
you really free? Are you free of gramMatical rooLs? Free of needing acceptance from and belonging to others? Free of that fear of physically dying? Free from yesterdays deepest truth, the one you subscribed to and fought for and lost friends and love for?
If you are,
than your life is the adventure you once dreamt it could be.
It is your favoritist movie and you are writing your part in the script at
ALL TIMES-
If you are tired and unwilling to conform to even ur own deepest convictions, especially ur deepest convictions...
come join me
by departing from this world of delusion and insanity,
then join me by departing from me and finally, yes-
join no one and no thing,
just depart from your own precious selfhood.
If you are a true revolutionary you can not name yourself.
You cannot even name a thing. You have fled the confines of language
and the thought that you even think you know anything-
for that vast infinity of mystery we like to call the universe.
Be free of this idea of freedom. Be free of what you thought you knew.
to steal a line from the dead who are the
only truly informed ones...
the ones I trust-
“wash yourself of yourself,
...be like the melting snow.....”
Goodnight Rumi.
I can only heed a teacher who has no longer a body.
Your deadness models for me,
how I must be,
dead to all I think of me,
dead in order to be finally
free of even that which I think is
FREE..
Not sure I'm getting this. Remi's poem doesn't omit belonging to others:
ReplyDelete"Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive."
Only in anger and fury does he say: "be like the dead."
But, how can you love and omit anger? You can only have anger if you have love. Are you saying freedom is the omission of all feeling?
If we move from prophecy to philosophy and psychology we learn that we need certain things in order to survive. Food, water, shelter and spiritual needs. Not to say we can't "wash ourselves from ourselves," but we cannot survive solely on that premise. Not being able to survive is not freedom - it's death.
Sorry for the delay. This is the first time in three years that I've figured out how to find and reply to comments. Rumi, many other mystics and prophets point to Ego Annihilation as an essential step before gaining true enlightenment. I am not saying die to feelings or life; I'm suggesting that one must die to whatever false concept of self one has (ego made) in order to experience his true and complete essence. Is that clearer?
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