On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:43 AM, jp EnlightenmentGuy < [email protected]> wrote:
> This always happens: > > I ask an extremely succinct, easy-to-understand, fundamental question > and I get one of two responses: > > 1. So called "regular" people look at me like I am dumb as a bag of > rocks for even asking such a silly question about something so > obvious. "Nobody thinks about this stuff, what is wrong with you? You > need to get out and get LAID already!!!" > > 2. So called "spiritual" people respond with things that are really > clear like "Sufi dervishes go Hoo Hooo Hoooo". Or equally as helpful, > "So, WHO is asking the question? WHO is it that is confused? > Whoooo..... Whooooooooo......." which they repeat a zillion times, > like I haven't heard that a zillion times before. > You have not heard even once. If there was a hearing........the blinding clarity finishes everything. > > Will I ever learn? Nope. > The more I seek answers from others, the more I > find I am on my own. > Not even that. > > Those that aren't "on the path" likely never will be -- trying to ask > them about it, or worse -- trying to get them to join in on it -- > leads to inevitable frustration. There is nothing for me there. There > is nothing for me, with 99.9999++% of humanity. > There is no humanity, forget a percentage. Just a pantomime of phantoms. Now what will you do with your stark aloneness? Who will whine to? > > And I suspect almost all people who SEEM to be "on the path", those > who show up at retreats and Satsangs, or worse -- ridiculous > discussion boards like this -- are just tourists, interested in "this > stuff", or think its cool, another fun mental-masturbation exercise, > or this is just another cool spiritual thing they are incorporating > into their plethora of other neato spiritual thingeys they are > sampling. Sure seems that way. Seems to be nothing for me here, > either. > Indeed. Hastala vista. > > On my own. > > Hopefully, finally, DAMMIT, hopefully totally on my own............... > Forget hope-ness. And forget hopelessness. >
