Hey! Let's All Play The "Bullshit Game" (oh...you're already playing)

But, you’ve got NO time for games. You're life is serious business, yo!

However, time and thought are so deeply enmeshed in your mind, that there really is no difference (except for those who ‘lack’ time). Everything you encounter and perceive as "outside," is fully experienced "inside." Doesn’t matter if there really is such an internal/external division (which ego is loathe to admit). Fact is, ALL experience is internally encountered and every encounter is undeniably an encounter with THOUGHT, because in your head, THOUGHT is all you CAN ever encounter and, hence. claim to "know."

Hence, “time” is in your head and exists nowhere else. Yet, because you have no experience of ‘present’ time, you rapidly scurry around attempting to make the best use of time because egocentric time is of short supply (and let’s not forget that “time is money,” yo!).

The egocentric self-construct ("you") is actually a “time machine." Although it can ONLY go forward into the future and backward into the past, it does this entirely through the use of THOUGHT. In fact, the ego is nothing more than an obsessive identification with past/future THOUGHTS. Every THOUGHT the ego THINKS is entirely preoccupied with the past and NOTHING ELSE and ONLY this insures it will have a future (discounting the possibility of death, which egos are expert at discounting). Simply put, the ego insures itself a future existence because it identifies itself as having existed in a past (egos even conjure up past ‘existences’ that conform to medieval times or even farther back in the past and this is referred to as “past lives").

This means that NOT one thought in your mind is TRUE and, instead, is ALL bullshit and this is the reason you have absolutely no PRESENT experience. There’s simply too much fooking bullshit for you to ever be PRESENT. You don't even have the capacity to tell the difference between truth and bullshit.

Make no mistake, the bullshit you refer to as THOUGHT includes images, words, emotions, experiences, sensations, perceptions, etc, etc, etc. None of it makes any difference whatsoever and, for this game, “bullshit” merely refers to that which does not exist and is patently meaningless. An ego that thinks (and all egos believe they actually do "think") thinks bullshit and since it’s bullshit, it’s not true and what’s not true must be a lie. Lies are also referred to as “illusions,” but since it is experienced by YOUR mind, best to refer to all your THOUGHT as "delusional."

Nevertheless, finally realizing that it’s all bullshit should be a liberating experience, allowing you to play in all your experiences infinitely, in total and complete freedom from any finite cares and woes. Unless, of course, you’re really attached to some of your bullshit and refuse to see it as bullshit (which is quite understandable for an ego).

Note that bullshit applies to ALL THOUGHT and NOT just the ones you don’t like. It includes all images and sensations and NOT just the ones you’d prefer NOT to experience (see/hear/touch). The “beautiful” blue sky is as much bullshit, as the road kill you passed on the way to work and the great "sex" you had last night is as much bullshit as the mind-numbing repetitive "work" you do, day after day, year after year. It’s ALL, quite simply…

….bullshit.

So next time you have a “thought,” (ANY THOUGHT) promptly inform your ‘self’ that it’s “bullshit.” All day long, after each thought, repeat to yourself, “bullshit” and continue with “Yep, that’s bullshit too, and that, and yep, that too is bullshit. Oh and that’s bullshit and this is bullshit as well. Nope, that does not matter, because it’s bullshit too and that and that and even this…. bullshit.” On and on, ad infinitum. Note all the images that enter your mind, representing an external world, and repeat…”bullshit.” And when your kid pisses you off, don’t forget to remind your ‘self’ it’s all “bullshit.” Upon watching the news…”bullshit.” Looking forward to your vacation? “Bullshit.” Won the lotto..."bullshit." Just got married/divorced..."bullshit."  Increased your "spiritual awareness"..."bullshit."

Immediately after viciously blaming yourself for acting stupid, inform yourself that the blame was bullshit, just as 'acting stupid' is "bullshit." After your angry tirade against the tyrannical government, quickly inform yourself that it’s all bullshit. You feel proud of a job well done…”bullshit.” Great meditation session…”bullshit.”

Remember not to exclude any experience (thought) you encounter and be sure to immediately stamp it as bullshit. Everything and anything that is encountered by egocentricity is pure bullshit.

Finally, at the end of the day, upon realizing how little stress you feel, in extracting yourself from the experience of time by acknowledging it’s ALL “bullshit,” promptly inform your self that thinking “it’s all bullshit”…is “bullshit” too. Have a good nights sleep, waking up all refreshed to glide seamlessly through ever more bullshit (and don’t forget to label your dreams as “bullshit”). Why get all stressed out about bullshit when it’s all bullshit and this bullshit is no different than that bullshit? (including everything written here).

This is one way of playing infinitely in a finite world (the subtitle of this blog). But note how your ego will squirm in defiance of this game. The ego wants “truth,” but it wants truth sprinkled with sugar on top, choosing certain ‘thoughts’ to reflect “truth,” while others can be false. Yet, I ask that you simply explore the claim that ALL thought is bullshit, simply because it conforms to an ego which does not exist that conjures up thoughts that do not exist, to accentuate ‘moments in time’ that do not exist. The meanings you apply to bullshit are what make it bullshit, because outside of your meanings, it means jack-shit (even if billions of other minds also agree that the bullshit is “true,” that makes it even more conclusively…"bullshit”).

And when anyone (and I do mean anyone) attempts to inform you that their bullshit is actually some kind of sacred "truth," be sure to immediately flush it down the hopper, where all shit is deposited, especially bullshit.

As you continue this “bullshit” game, you should begin to recognize some things. First you’ll start to recognize that everything you see, means something because you want it to. But by recognizing you injected the images (thought) with meaning, outside your meanings you don’t have a clue what it means. This leads to understanding that, since ALL images are THOUGHT, outside your precious meanings, your THOUGHTS don’t mean anything at all and all the suffering you’ve endured all these years is as meaningless as the thoughts in your head, because all your suffering is based exclusively on meanings you applied to THOUGHT that is entirely based on the past.

That's called "bullshit."

But be warned, the ego-self will grit and grind over your considering its THOUGHT meaningless. This is because “you” are nothing but a swirling cesspool of PAST meanings all rolled up in a tortilla and sprinkled with some zesty existential salsa to give "life" flavor. But bullshit tastes like bullshit, no matter what you pour over it to make it more palatable (which is just more bullshit).

And “you” are as meaningless as each and every thought in your head (because “you” are nothing more than each and every thought in your head). You are... bullshit.

But don’t worry that it’s all bullshit. Just think of what you will experience when you finally scrape away all the bullshit you’ve been knee-deep in all these years.

And BTW, the object of this game is not to win (what could you win but more bullshit?), but to keep on playing the bullshit game. Only difference this time is that you know it's bullshit and can finally have FUN playing...Yea!

But I'm sure you have more serious and important things to do than play bullshit games right?

Artwork by Mark Ryden - The Butcher Bunny"