OPPOSITES ARE-TRACKED

Opposites are not separate
But irrevocably inter-connected.
Like the two faces of one coin,
One side cannot survive without the other.
We dance along the strands of that interconnection,
Pretending to be one
But not the other.......
Yet changing sides when it suits us,
Deluding
And deluded.

What makes us vulnerable is not our duality,
Our unexplainable inconsistencies
But our delusions about them.

Each one of us is a complex of dualities,
A mystery of competing contradictions.
Illogicalities and paradoxes,
Challenging us to take a step back
And look from another, wider perspective.

Don't be hostage to surprise;
Don't be troubled.
If you expect life to be fully rational
You are bound for frustration.
Simply notice what-is
One-der within it
And enjoy the play of light-ness.

REAL-ATIONSHIP

This much I know....
We become what we love,

AND

We become what we resist.

So much for our duality.

But I can't just write it off at that.
I'm tantalised by the inner-dwelling relationship
Between what we love
And what we resist.
From that interdwelling interaction
A richness of experience arises,
Mysteriously un-reasonable, often contradictory,
And ineffably human.

POINTING

People become obsessed
With rules, traditions and texts
Only
When they have lost their sense
Of what and where those things point to.

Ivan M. Grainger

AUTHENTICITY

We do not react and interact with the world as it is:
We interact with a world reconstructed by our selves.
What is "real" to us is not actual.
Our realities are seriously flawed.
Until we get authentic about that,
And begin exploring and owning up to our delusions
We cannot be authentic in the actual world.

Our reconstruction of reality is twofold ---

Firstly by our perceptions;
What we see and hear is filtered and reshaped
By what we've conditioned ourselves to expect,
Rather than by the actuality of what-is happening.

Secondly by the interdiction of our guiding operating principles;
We don't react directly with what is happening
But with what we say to ourselves about what is happening in our world.

This is where "others" come in;
They reflect our misshapen perceptions back to us.
Isn't that nice of them?
Whatever others say about you
Says more about their percpetions
Than it says about you.
Likewise, whatever you say about another --
You give yourself away
(In more ways than one.....)
Now we begin to get a different perspective on what The Christ meant when he said -- "Judge not, lest ye be judged."


Authenticity begins with getting authentic about our arms-length, emotional insulating from cold, hard reality.