Apotheosis

The best of the best of the best

of what?

Divine status on hold…

“I want to talk to the manager!”

….it’s only a matter of waking up

to what’s around you,

paying attention the entry fee.

I’m sorry; everything you’ve been 

told is wrong. If you were Holden

Caulfield, you’d know that by now.

If you were Yossarian, you’d already 

be looking for the exit. If you were 

Rimbaud, you’d be deranging your

senses; Kesey, on LSD; Tonto on a

vision quest; Jesus finding Buddhism

In Persia; Alexander drinking soma in

India; Huxley taking mescaline; Cary

Grant on acid; Younghusband in Tibet.

“You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t 

wanna know,” (Jerry). Change happens, 

but you have to let it….not stuck to a

rut (not groove: groove includes change)

because the familiar is so…familiar. 

That’s why Buddha said first thing is to

leave the family.

Nobody learned to sing that didn’t also

know how to fight. No snowflakes in a

bird’s nest: it’s fly or die. Everyone fails

as part of the path. If you want to know

the truth, you have to break a few eggs.

It doesn’t matter what people think that

take their thoughts as real. You’ve been

given an interface with a world…the 

natural thing to do is to use it.

If you were born grown and had a week 

to live, you’d want to know something

pretty quick. The illusion of eternity 

creeps in when we see we wake up every

morning, forgetting that, once, we didn’t

exist. We feel no urgency, like a cow in a

large field of grass. But sometimes, when 

we walk away, from a plane crash say, we

don’t see things the same way ever again.

Humans can evolve intentionally because 

of their large brains, which mimic the 

universe in structure. Experience is the path,

awareness the tool to unlock infinity.  If

enlightenment wasn’t already potential in all, 

there never would have been a Buddha.

So, get to work.