'Madness' Articles
We are mad when we view life as static. That we can ‘control’ life and the world around us. How many of us are mad? Far too many.
Question everything and choose your focus. Your focus will create your reality.
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free” Nikos Kazantzakis
“Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.” -The Joker (The Dark Knight)
Madness and Spirituality
Madness as it relates to spirituality. It is strange. They say the more you learn the less you know. The deeper the knowing goes the less you can say anything for certain and then when you are questioned people just dismiss your responses as being obtuse. You become an expert at learning. Buddhism is often accused of nihilism because it confronts the nature of some aspects of knowing. They refer to the realization of “sunya” or the void nature of reality. Many people just jump to the conclusion that they believe nothing of human experience has meaning and they dismiss… Seek More
Image of God
Why is science now a religion? And why is psychology the “rational” definition of soul? In many peoples minds, if I say “I believe I am the image of God”, people will call me crazy. But if I accept the psychological terms and describe myself that way, then that is ok. The erroneous notion of idolatry. Yet people still do it, vehemently. Image worship. It’s supposedly to have a “concrete” idea of something, a defined or definable image, but does anyone’s life really support the absolute value of that? My God is better than your God…and if their God were… Seek More
Time and Tao
So eliminate the concept of future… or past? Even physics suggests that future and past are actually not evidenced in the nature of the systems we use the ideas to describe. In being timeless you are being what you are at the core, the soul. It is hard to live without time, maybe impossible. The Persians had a phrase. Wear the outer robe of the law. Meaning do what you must in the world. Sort of rendering unto Caesar what is Caesars, but wear the inner robe of the mystic. Recognize that the law isn’t the truth. Observe your mind… Seek More
Avoid the Madness
Shoulda, woulda, coulda syndrome. Why does it exist? Should? Then why? Would have? Then why didn’t you? Could of? What does that mean? It’s madness. You can question everything. I strongly encourage it. The point where nothing seems to have meaning because everything is questionable. That is when you can see real meaning, because it is there. We breath, we feel, we think. We didn’t create this. We cling to ideas and not realities. To fix something, sometimes you must first break it and go further. It is fine to know your limits, but they are not the source of… Seek More
Rabbits!
Rabbits! Rabbits get tense because they are paying so much attention, but they also relax because it’s their nature. Humans get tense because they are paying so much attention. It is false stimuli and loud noises, and because they have to keep “in touch with” reality they just stay tense. Rabbits would go extinct if they lived like that. We’re working on it. I’m just tense because my mind doesn’t have an off button. Nope, tense because we believe the mind needs one. We take it too seriously and think it’s right. It’s really more like a TV set. I… Seek More
