No Big Deal If The World Ends

Shakespeare, Hemingway, Beethoven,

Bukowski and Huang Po all arise on another

planet to continue their beauty and sarcasm.

If humans disappear like dinosaurs, no one

left to weep, not even a memory, so no 

worries, no problems. Hunter Thompson will

appear, green, with antennae holding a gin 

and tonic under a blue sun...who knows?

We don't know how we got here in the first

place, God notwithstanding. Issa put it blunt

and beautiful: "Why cry, little cricket? We all

go this way."

If you were lucky in this life, you got your 

bearings and did something interesting, with

inquisitiveness to explore, look around,

understand a bit. If not, too bad...go believe

something in case that will make you feel a

little better.

How long does it take to grow up, and, are we

talking one life or many? Both, I think. Some are

mature beyond their years, which points to prior 

experience with living...others never manage to

get out of their own way.

I was driven mad with wonder, when I was young,

why I was alive in the first place. It took intense

reading of books to find the truth and begin to

absorb it. The truth is out there, folks, let me assure

you, in case you have any interest in finding it.

If you're sure about anything, you're lost. The 

purpose of the truth is to bring you to your senses

and the only time of now where you can find 

yourself. Yourself is not your "self"...it's everything

but your ideas about you....it's the trees and clouds

and furry creatures. The body is just a convenient 

mechanism to house and focus the sense tools so

you can be a full participant as part of the tamasha,

the shared illusion, the ongoing eternal play of the

whole enchilada.

The universe wouldn't blink if our earth explodes.

It's too small a deal. There's already another earth 

out there in whatever stage of awakening....another

cambrian explosion...other entities learning to use 

fire, tie their shoes, get enlightened. Only stupid

earth monkeys are sure they're the top banana. 

Any other view doesn't make sense. Do you best

and forget the rest.