The orthodox inspires the mystic
An Ardent Law Argued
When the state fears the people
The people are citizens of state.
When the people fear the state
The people are subjects of state.
Summation of the additives, life and liberty equates to happiness.
All are entitled to pursue their own definition of happiness free from any definition that would be imposed by another individual or collective. Any imposition on one’s liberty is a similar imposition on right to life and subtractive of one’s total happiness.
One has the right to defend in whole or in part the principles of this equation that is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
This is not a right that can in any way be infringed upon , it is a fundamental law of nature. As this is not a declaration of rights but an acute observation of natural law.
Those who would be governed choose to allow those who govern to infringe on these rights to the extent that they derive some societal/collective benefit. Any individual must choose whether any subtraction of rights is justified.
Defense of natural law requires no declaration as it is writ by the laws of nature and self- evident to all, who are part of nature.
Spell casting
What was one concealed,
The mysteries of the cosmos,
The aspiring mystikos
To self would reveal.
Conscious that there is only one religious source, self, and that outward displays of one’s religious observances are but metaphor of inner observance, creed.
Deathless Dead Duck
A fourth of the flock, By the three forgot, Near night’s opened door, Lifeless laid on the floor. Life’s brief dream, Fallen leaf in a stream, Mere memory evermore. Matter matters not, But carnage in rot, By wood-handled spade In earthen-clay laid. To higher realms I pray you soar.
Trinity
From: Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness by John Donne “I joy, that in these straits I see my west; For, though their currents yield return to none, What shall my west hurt me? As west and east In all flat maps (and I am one) are one, So death doth touch the resurrection.”
Ἀσία
On a mountain by a river that has no end
“By meditating on the three main channels and the four main chakras, may we loosen the tightness of the blocked channels. May all the wind energy enter the central channel, and may we thereby experience the path of clear light. By penetrating the pleasure centers of the chakras, may we achieve the realization of the eternal state of bliss. “ - Lama Yeshe (The Bliss of Inner Fire)
Ariya-sacca (Noble Truths)
Cattāriariya-saccāni (The Four Noble Truths)
dukkha (truth of suffering)
tanhā (truth of attachment)
nirodha (truth of renunciation)
magga (truth of the path):
sammā-ditthi (right view)
sammā-sankappa (right intent)
sammā-vacca (right speech)
sammā-kammanta (right action)
sammā-ājīva (right livelihood)
sammā-vāyāma (right effort)
sammā-sati (right mindfulness)
sammā-samādhi (right concentration)
Emptiness
May I realize,
That of any measurable quantity
I am empty,
And thus
May I realize,
The immeasurable qualities
Of inherent Buddha Nature.
Bela Lugosi’s dead. Undead. Undead. Undead.
