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Friday, October 8, 2010

"Living in the Bathroom"

I am poor and know not where my next roll of toilet paper is coming from...I don't eat during the day, only at night...I am too far-gone to really know or care what is happenning in my life. Is it my life anyways?
I am in love with two women and want the new relationship to transpose the old.
What am I doing other than what my mind wants? I say, "My mind," as if it were something diferent from "me." Which it is...
"Not this body, not this mind, eternal Self you are."
I am the only person in the rest of my life...I am not the "me" you see when our glances meet in the street; nor the "me" who curses you for cutting me off in traffic; nor the one who locks eyes with you when I walk into a tavern; nor the "me" who tells you I love you, a perfect stranger...
I am the self who never gives witness to the mind within my brain within my head within my soul...I am the "me" you never see, the private self who is at war with the public self, the persona I address to the world. "Persona" comes from the Greek meaning, 'mask,' a term used in Greek theatre. The persona we present to the world is not the real and true self, rather it is the false ego, the social role-player we put a front to the world with. How could it be otherwise...
We are body, mind and soul. Our body and mind are material while the soul is spirit, non-decaying, age-less, eternal, primeval and dies not when the physical vehicle desolves back to the original elements.
The body is gross physical matter, while the mind, intelligence and false ego are subtle physical matter, the subtle body. When the body dies, our consciousness is carried with the subtle body to the next birth, be it human, animal, plant or aquatic or whatever. We may take birth either in a physical body or be transfered to our original spiritual body, our true self, the soul, in the atmosphere of the spiritual world. Or alternatively, we may be born as a ghost, which has consciousness but no body and thus unable to enjoy or suffer except through other living entities which it may for sometime inhabit. Thus, the condition known as spirit possessed or ghostly haunted.
A ghost can inhabit a tree. I know of one such haunting; a ghost was inhabiting a tree, and would lure young girls to it and possess them and convince them to commit suicide. Many girls had hung themselves on this tree. This happened in India...

So, we travel to new bodies at death. We grow new bodies, as it were; just as we once had a baby's body, then a youth's, then a grown man, then an old body, so we transfer or move on to new bodies after death. Where is your baby's body now? Voila, the proof for reincarnation!!
After all, modern science has determined our cells and thus the entire body renews itself every so many years.
So, I arrive where I started. Journey without goal. A traipsing without arriving.
Now, I must get back to my search for my next roll of toilet paper. Maybe Mike at the handy-Mart across the street will give me a roll on credit. Then again, maybe not...

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