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Jed Rant... You are special
DIR By: Jed McKenna
Date: August 3, 2016, 3:11 am
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Got your attention yet ??? ??? ??? .
O.K. Now let me share some wisdom, or maybe it's not wisdom, who
cares?
I am not a youngster and have been lucky enough to have gained
an amazing array of experience in this human world.
I want you do get this at a deep level... please contemplate:
EVERYONE'S TALK IS SILLY, IT'S RIDICULOUS, CHILDISH, MOSTLY
STUPID, OFTEN BORING, USUALLY ILLUSIONAL/DELUSIONAL
/SELF-REFERENCING ... IN SHORT... ALMOST ALWAYS JUST A PILE OF
CRAP .... I REPEAT, A PILE OF CRAP. I'VE MET WATER BUFFALOES
WHO SPOKE MORE INTELLIGENTLY, (no, I wasn't on drugs!).
This is my observation. When one is fearful, one talks rubbish
and there are very, very few people who are not living in fear.
So, there is a corollary to this, the other side of the coin. IN
TRUTH, you are not special, not in any way. You just are. Fear
is keeping you from talking in a ''more'' honest manner. Now, I
am not special either. Perhaps a little lucky in this human
experience, but absolutely nothing special. The luck was not
something ''I'' had anything to do with.
Your ego and the self-esteem b.s. that you were raised with
block the view. Parents, society, schooling, government ... etc.
have all been your jailor. What else could Maya/ego produce...
other than more of the same? Escape is just a decision away, a
realization that IN TRUTH, you are very, very simple, very
ordinary, and ... really more like a baby that an adult.
Why does a baby draw adult's attention? A child is what everyone
is striving to be like but they are going about it bass
ackwards. They are piling on garbage when they should be (if so
inclined) removing garbage. Your self-esteem, the maintenance of
your special illusion of a real somebody, a self, someone
special... are very weighty and will burn you up just bearing
and wearing them... unless you stop by the roadside of life and
remove that burden. Just gently put it on the roadside and say,
''Thanks, but no thanks, not any more''.
Bring a baby into a room of adults and observe what happens. The
adults gather around and ooh and ahh. Put the baby on the floor
and, let say it's a boy. Of it goes and pees all over the carpet
(baby boys are notoriously bad mannered that way). Everyone
says, "Oh... he's soooo cute, just peeing away on our beautiful
Persian silk rug''. What on earth do all these supposed adults
see or sense here. NOTHING, the shear nothingness that the baby
is. Open and available for everything and anything that arises.
This is pretty close to a description of God.
Now, look around at the adults.... what do you see? Worn out,
burdensome and burdened, sad eyed, bent over with age... it
doesn't have to be like that... pretty much just another zombie
movie and exactly why they are so popular.
Some students expect me to paint a picture, (complete with IKEA
like directions) to show you what the finished product (T/R) is
going to look like. This will give you a goal to shoot for.
That's certainly reasonable but there is a catch. If I do that,
or at least try (because it's impossible), I will fall into the
NABS trap.
Telling someone that they can expect some blissful out of the
world experience certainly sells, but it also traps one into
expecting something, something specific and thus missing the
nothing that is... that you are, in Truth.
Any picture I might give will not be IT. You cannot imagine IT,
you cannot picture IT, but of course, humans want to know where
they are headed (control issues anyone?). More accurately, their
egos want to know. Ego cannot go there. That's just the reality
of this ''situation''.
Let me rant on.....
Suppose I gave you a painting. It's a marvelous and famous
painting and it's very old. Let's pretend it's from the time of
the Buddha (just to make it more interesting). The problem is
that various folks have come along over thousands of years and
painted over it, thinking they could make it better (Church,
leaders, gov. schools, etc.). Needless to say, the all failed..
most quite miserably.
I come along and see you contemplating it, yet you are
frustrated because there are many, many layers of fake
painting/paint on top of the real thing from those
aforementioned misguided efforts. I have a special small dental
type tool on me just for such events. I give it to you and tell
you that it works quite well at removing the old paint... chip
by chip. I am very, very old and I just happen to know what is
underneath all the caked on .... hm... garbage... but don't ask
me how I know... I just know.
You start chipping and but there is a hell of a lot of paint to
be removed. You eventually get tired, but ever time you turn
away a magnetic force draws you back for more chipping. You
don''t even know how thick this covering paint is.
Now, get this... you do not know what the painting (I'll call
it the ''Mona-Buddha") is like. Nothing you imagine is going to
be like it, nothing anyone says is going to help you, it's not
going to yield it's beauty until you have chipped away the old
paint. Even if I could tell you about it, that would fall way
short of what it is and would be a very big disservice. You need
to chip that paint away and you have to do it yourself.
The best I can do is assist if the chipping gets a little
difficult, encourage you when you are tired of chipping and
re-assure you that yes, there is that painting under all of the
false cover-ups that have been laid on over the centuries by
well intentioned but delusional dreamers (Maya/ego inspired).
Even though you find it somewhat maddening, whenever you turn to
me and give me that WTF look, I just say ''Further''.
So, the bottom line here... it goes something like this, "What
are you doing?" Do you have a tool and are you picking away at
the illusion? Are you picking with one hand and painting over
with the other hand? Or are you just standing around picking
your teeth with my special little tool. If it's the last case,
please go wash it and give it back to me. I don't like wasting
my little tools. They aren't easy to find. Well, there are
always the counterfeit ones made in China, but they break
easily. Look for the "Made by Jed" along with the Maya logo.
Enough of me... I'm going for a walk in the monsoons... love
those monsoons. Oh, and will someone get a nappy and wipe up
that mess on the carpet.
Love ya, Jed.
#Post#: 23134--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant... You are special
DIR By: Frits
Date: August 3, 2016, 3:52 am
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Nice one. ;)
#Post#: 23140--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant... You are special
DIR By: jjtech
Date: August 3, 2016, 5:22 am
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Jed,
Just don't tell anyone the little tool is more like a dental
drill and painting are your own teeth....
Btw, I can totally relate to the "pile of crap" analogy....
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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
DIR By: Frits
Date: August 3, 2016, 6:20 am
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I can relate to the Water Buffaloes 8)
#Post#: 23151--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant... You are special
DIR By: Lian
Date: August 3, 2016, 1:47 pm
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If I believe I am special, I won't be able to identify with
others as I will most likely see them as inferior. This will
introduce a separation in consciousness between what is me and
what is not me. In addition, I will always favor what I consider
to be me or related to me.
#Post#: 23152--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant... You are special
DIR By: purpleroses111
Date: August 3, 2016, 2:09 pm
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The ego uses the 'I'm special' card in a plethora of ways. From
my experience, the "I am ugly/inferior/stupid/such a
loser/victim" card. That is indeed another trick of the ego to
try to make itself special. There are plenty of other people (or
so it seems) that think this and live their lives reflecting
this. It's nothing new or special about it. If the mind can't
get you to think you're special/superior, it will try another
way to keep you ensnared - the low self esteem card. Yick.
And investigating any belief with utter vigilance allows it to
break apart. Just simply look and see. If anyone or anything is
truly ugly/inferior/stupid/such a loser/insert any condemnation,
then why the heck is life keeping it alive, taking care of it,
and allowing it to even be present against the so called
'superior' people? Let's face it, there are truly millions of
ways to die (I used to love that show) of which we have no
control. Life could easily wipe all humans out or anything at
any second and we would just watch it happen with no so called
power or anything.
Besides, as Osho pointed out, where would the so called good
people be without the bad people? The bad people couldn't exist
without the good people playing their role. And vice versa. So,
they are equally important in the role/play.
I've discovered something fascinating. Oh how beautiful it is to
just be...Being somebody good or bad has the exact net
result..which is being completely enslaved to the ego and a
miserable muck. Everything (that comes out of believing the
mind) reduces down to this...
Fabulous Rant.
#Post#: 23161--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant... You are special
DIR By: Jed McKenna
Date: August 3, 2016, 11:03 pm
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Good and bad people do indeed appear to be... in the dream.
Judgment keeps much of the dream appearing real. The is not only
no good or bad, there is no one who could be such... row, row,
row your boat.
Love ya, Jed.
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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
DIR By: iamnotthatiamnot2
Date: August 4, 2016, 9:13 am
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"Just do it"
#Post#: 23188--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant... You are special
DIR By: Stephan Caspers
Date: August 4, 2016, 7:16 pm
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Thanks Jed! Another shitty rant ;) I appreciate reminders like
these.
#Post#: 23200--------------------------------------------------
Re: Jed Rant... You are special
DIR By: Floris
Date: August 5, 2016, 11:53 am
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Sometimes I try to not pick or trow the picker away, but that
just doesn't work. I guess the pick stays until the job is
finished?
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