[MD] Drama

[Heather Perella]

     Ian and others,


  [Ian]
> I think, working our way out of what might easily be
> seen as a cycle
> of decline (rather than working out who to blame) is
> the quest we're
> on, hopefully. Deckchairs on the Titanic, etc.


     Ian, has anybody ever said to you, that you are
one smart cookie.
 
     I sit back, look at the window...

     The wind is blowing on the maple leaves...

     I look down at the keys on the keyboard...

     I hear a blue jay, a dog barking in the distance,
the sound of a truck beeping as it backs up even
further in the distance, the wind blows heavy now...

     This is either a monastic place or even better,
we delve into the messages streaming here in this
quiet, peaceful, comfort...

     This all reminds of this saying of Tibetan monks
as follows:

     I take refuge in the Buddha.
     I take refuge in the Dharma.
     I take refuge in the Sangha.

     Or in other words, 

     I take refuge in Dynamic Quality.
     I take refuge in the social harmony.
     I take refuge in those that come back from the
quest.

     As we venture into DQ, we come back with ideas
that establish a society, and if need be, we put it in
the woods, come up with proper social conduct, and our
monastery is alive, accepting the influx of DQ
realizations, via art, we codify these realizations
into understandable patterns so this society can
acknowledge our communications and these are what we
call static patterns. 

     When I was in my early twenties, I backpacked
from the house.  Sometimes I went on Vision Quests,
all by myself, in the woods and sat naked by a fire
for a whole day and whole night.  I came back to my
family, and they said hi.  I heard and still hear a
lot of, accept for those few close friends, 'I don't
understand you."  After some years, before my father
passed away, he realized where I was coming from -
thank G-d, I feel warm inside and teary in my heart
with joy as I have this memory.  Oh, the trails we had
together before he saw what I saw.
     With the translations of my behavior and verbal
comments seemingly blown away by the wind before the
minds of others could fully understand me, I then
realized what I have experienced, seen and realized
will not transfer into social harmony outside of here
and others are not ready to sit and find out what I
have seen.  Why would anybody?  It is the U.S.
culture.  You need a job, and as the song goes,  "Get
$, Get $, Get$..."


     I almost gave up, I did though find a wife that
understands me, and a boy on the way, due October 2,
2006.
     What if I forget?  The details of the rain that
night, the huge buck that walked towering over me, the
squirrel that walked almost into my little circle, the
ashes I spread around me, the fear, the singing, the
rocking motion, the standing up to face something I
projected to be outside of me in the darkness between
the trees....  As long as human beings are born, the
earth is here, the blue in the sky, the gray clouds
when it rains, the stories will probably change in
form, yet, that content will always be here in wait.
  


SA

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