[MD] i love quality decline

[Dan Glover]

Determinism and free will are illusions though marvelous illusions they are. 
All things are temporal. These who dwell too much on today's miseries forget 
that a hundred years hence everyone we know will be dead and the world we 
know gone.

That's not to say we shouldn't focus on making things better. By putting our 
full attention into whatever it is we happen to be doing we achieve a state 
of caring. When eating, just eat. When reading, just read. When writing, 
just write. When painting, just paint. When working, just work. When 
fucking, just fuck. When we care we find the world is a better place.

Caring changes the world. By achieving a state of caring we find the world 
provides all we might require. When we see that, we no longer feel the need 
to cling to what we have for fear we might lose it. We become aware of the 
temporal nature of the world. So when we find we're poor, we live as poor 
people. When we find we're wealthy, we live as wealthy people.

Caring wakes us up. It's easy to be dragged into the muck of the world; it's 
easy to live in fear. Stasis is death yet clinging to what we have seems 
better than seeking something better. By focusing on the moment of caring we 
come to see the illusion of permamence. By achieving a state of caring we 
awaken the joy of just living.

>From: gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: [MD] i love quality decline
>Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:21:10 +1000 (EST)
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>creation - destruction
>birth -death
>love and marriage
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>you get the gist?
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>cannae have one without the other folks
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>america is the destroyer. it is destroying itself and
>much of the world with it. BUT THIS IS HOW IT IS, AND
>HOW IT IS IS HOW IT IS MEANT TO BE.
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>destruction and decay are as much a part of life as
>growth; inseparable. look at a rainforest: all that
>abundant life - the most abundant vegetative life on
>the planet - supported by a flimsy layer of topsoil,
>*supplemented by a thick mat of continually decaying
>matter*. it is the rotting detritus that feeds the
>beauty.
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>and so it is with our human world. america is shiva's
>grumpy side; america is doing god's work, only those
>that normally preach this haven't got a fuckin clue
>about WHAT this work actually is. america is the end
>of western culture; the end of greece, rome, the
>renaissance. it is devolution.
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>yes we are surrounded by primates. there is not much
>going on other than id and ego round here folks. freud
>and his family created a self-fulfilling prophecy,
>effectively disregarding the idea of superego
>cultivation: ie education. instead we have marketing,
>advertising and focus groups...
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>war is the only ritual we have left. all the darkness
>within us - our jungian shadow - has no room to move
>and express itself. sex is taboo, truth is taboo,
>madness is taboo...taboo, taboo, taboo: but its okay
>cos mass slaughter is not taboo!!!!
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>so we can ally ourselves with humanity (aka the
>giant), or we can ally ourselves with the earth, with
>the cosmos. it is possible to be in and not of the
>world, the human world. it is possible to look on,
>untouched, as it destroys itself. no i was wrong
>there: it is possible to look on JOYFULLY as it
>destroys itself. everything is divine and right. and
>joyous and wonderful.
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>the fact of existence - and existential facts are the
>only facts there are - is staring us in the face. it
>is a miracle man, a mysterious miracle. our mind
>separates us from this recognition, this divine
>awareness of our unity with the cosmos. it is our mind
>that is poisoning us; it is our minds that have been
>duped, tricked, confused, misdirected and yet our mind
>is capable of transcending itself: IF WE TRUST OUR
>HEART.
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>children and animals and plants are more intelligent
>than adults. they trust their hearts implicitly. it is
>not even a choice. we who have unlearnt wisdom,
>learning knowledge instead, for us there is still
>hope.
>learn from children, nature, the stars, the silence.
>and learn from those that have gone before you: jesus,
>st francis, dante, dostoevsky, joyce, miller, kerouac,
>hicks etc etc.
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>so what of creation?
>can you feel it?
>the rising culture,
>nascent but tangible. it is a vague awareness of
>another angle: a new reality... or just reality:
>reality over realism.
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>it is a world where man has become god. this is what
>jesus was on about...obviously. it is a world where
>miracles are possible because miracles are actually in
>accord with the laws of nature: the implicate order.
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>can you let go of money, possessions, society, fame,
>hubris, power, ego?
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>if not you are going the way of the dodo. but that's
>okay, it's how it is.
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