When concepts can no longer be found for which to make sense of it all, you just can’t help laughing your fooking ass off.
When you’re lookin’ outside your eyeballs and suddenly you can’t hold back a big deep belly laugh...
....recognize that you’re awake.
Now here’s a chap worth watching. Notice how he’s struggling to take this sheit serious, knowing that’s what “Seekers” demand, all the while holding back from just busting out laughing.
In the 2nd video he completely loses it.
Definitely a sign of an "awakened master," except....
...to the serious ones.
My thanks to Lisa for the main photo.
You are an awakened master, too, Mike - on par with the best of 'em. Don't try to deny it!
ReplyDeleteI'm getting old (63! It's the new 80!). Dropped a lot of acid in the late 1960's - that's how I got enlightened. I was in the US Army 1967-1970, and I used to hand out tabs of LSD the way a Catholic priest dispenses communion wafers, only not so ceremoniously. I must be responsible for at least a few ruined lives. (!) One one occasion, a Puerto Rican Military Policeman I gave acid to followed me around for several hours calling me a "green faced mother-f**ker". At some level, I have been laughing ever since!
But there is a lot of stuff not so easy to laugh about. A friend of mine killed a woman jaywalker who stepped out from between two parked cars without looking. He told me it took 15 years before his brain stopped the endless loop of that woman's head bouncing off the hood of his taxicab every waking minute of his existence.
Same friend was undergoing surgery on his crushed thumb when he suffered a heart attack under anesthesia. He had two more subsequent heart attacks while trying to unsuccessfully sue the hospital. He came over to visit one night subsequent to the multiple fiascos and the first thing he did was light up a cigarette. I was ROTFLMAO. He saw nothing funny about the situation. I'm laughing as I type this.
Maybe if you ask nice I'll tell you really funny stuff!
Ha! That's funny, cause most of the acid I ever did was 6 yrs in the Marine Corps (never touched the stuff before or after, and damn, if it wasn't some good sheit).
ReplyDeleteHere's a quote from somebody who got it. "Enlightenment is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world."
I suppose when one finally gets that it is what it is, there is a laughter in that, which does not denigrate tragedy, but uplifts it.
But it does seem to me that if one cannot laugh WITH the absurdity, one becomes victim TO it.
I think we can laugh ABOUT everything. But we probably should not laugh AT anything. The distinction is obscure...
except to some...
Thanks Willie!
mikeS
Wow. A marvelously astute rejoinder. Indeed, That-Which-Is does a fairly credible job of pretending to be what it's not. Which is anything at all!
ReplyDeleteYa love that receipt, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI've seen that Jeff foster video before (him loosing it) and I thought I would just watch a few minutes (as I'm in a hurry to get ready for work). Well, I thoroughly enjoyed the entire 9 minutes again and its just the reminder I needed this morning.
And Willie do share some more funnies.
Annie
As always thanks Mike.
Ha!
ReplyDeleteSorry Abe. Great joke!
But not really fit for public consumption.
(although I will tell it in work today!)
mikeS
Jeff is a fake Im sorry to say he just plays with words...Look beyond all this play...I tell you this from a deep knowing thats all I can say...
ReplyDeleteSo how would you define "fake"?
ReplyDeleteAs if there were only one type of teacher that all others must conform to? And from where do we learn what this type is? From the past.
Best to let the past go...
mikeS
I'm going with the laughter thing.
ReplyDeleteYou are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not,
The universe is laughing behind your back.(Nat'l Lampoon)
Therefore, turn around and laugh with it.
Problem is, the moment you turn around the universe pretends it's serious again. Then you turn away and it starts snickering, only to snap on a serious face when you quickly spin back around. Back and forth it goes...
ReplyDeleteThis game has been played for centuries.
mikeS
Well, one could say, when things appear serious, one could shrug and say, "Must be serious day or something," and then just keep on keeping on, I guess.
ReplyDelete:)