04-16-2017, 12:00 AM
"If you think its wrong then it is, and yet if you think its fine then it is. Controlled folly is just like that. Purposelessness. YOu make your own purpose or none at all"
I'm certainly learning about the tricky truth of this. It's tricky, in a way, (sorry...the trickster is my ally...to my dismay and utter joy , and thus I get pranked by infinity itself in the context of underscoring this tricky truth...coyote has been pranking me hard these last few days), because there is another element at play. Thinking this and that certainly impacts perception. But what about the impact of suspending thought altogether. Silent knowledge....the insights, impressions, indications, impulses that come flashing in without a single thought to support them...to give them preamble. That's when infinity bleeds through the woodwork with it's purpose. Is that me? Perhaps one could coach it in those terms...hell, why not. The bigger self and all that. But, if I'm honest (and I'm simply speaking for myself here) it feels vastly beyond "me"....out of my control, so to speak. It is awareness...as you say....but an awareness that extends far beyond the perceived boundaries of me and my sense of control.
You used Julian as an example of a master of controlled folly, and you're right....nothing really matters, at least when compared to what's truly taking place at the fundamental level of things...within the third attention. But if read further, there was purpose there...and the purpose wasn't his at all. He truly was impeccable as was don Juan, in this regard. But impeccability had nothing to do with morality, in this we're in agreement. It had nothing to do with a fixed sense of right and wrong. Their impeccability had to do with acquiescence to the spirit and its indications. It's right there in the books....over and over and over again. Julian, with all of his crazy antics and prankster ways was him impeccably following indications from at large in the universe, filtered through the lens of his particular bent of character...his configuration. He was allowed a certain creative license with respect to how the indications were carried out, given his predilections.
Point being is that there is a unbound current out there....and it will proceed according to its inscrutable purpose long after I'm dead and gone. My goal (speaking for myself here! as always ) is to align with that purpose to the best of my ability while I'm woven into this configuration. I don't know what that means...where it will take me...but, when in alignment, the joy of it is incontrovertible.
I'm certainly learning about the tricky truth of this. It's tricky, in a way, (sorry...the trickster is my ally...to my dismay and utter joy , and thus I get pranked by infinity itself in the context of underscoring this tricky truth...coyote has been pranking me hard these last few days), because there is another element at play. Thinking this and that certainly impacts perception. But what about the impact of suspending thought altogether. Silent knowledge....the insights, impressions, indications, impulses that come flashing in without a single thought to support them...to give them preamble. That's when infinity bleeds through the woodwork with it's purpose. Is that me? Perhaps one could coach it in those terms...hell, why not. The bigger self and all that. But, if I'm honest (and I'm simply speaking for myself here) it feels vastly beyond "me"....out of my control, so to speak. It is awareness...as you say....but an awareness that extends far beyond the perceived boundaries of me and my sense of control.
You used Julian as an example of a master of controlled folly, and you're right....nothing really matters, at least when compared to what's truly taking place at the fundamental level of things...within the third attention. But if read further, there was purpose there...and the purpose wasn't his at all. He truly was impeccable as was don Juan, in this regard. But impeccability had nothing to do with morality, in this we're in agreement. It had nothing to do with a fixed sense of right and wrong. Their impeccability had to do with acquiescence to the spirit and its indications. It's right there in the books....over and over and over again. Julian, with all of his crazy antics and prankster ways was him impeccably following indications from at large in the universe, filtered through the lens of his particular bent of character...his configuration. He was allowed a certain creative license with respect to how the indications were carried out, given his predilections.
Point being is that there is a unbound current out there....and it will proceed according to its inscrutable purpose long after I'm dead and gone. My goal (speaking for myself here! as always ) is to align with that purpose to the best of my ability while I'm woven into this configuration. I don't know what that means...where it will take me...but, when in alignment, the joy of it is incontrovertible.